It's April 15th. The clock ticks like a bomb. Your hands tremble over a stack of forms thicker than a novel. A tax code that sprawls across 70,000 pages of legalese designed to trap you. 6 billion hours. Just to figure out how much the government will wrench from your pocket.
Schumpeter explains that in the medieval period prior to the tax state, there was no concept of the “common good” as we now think of it, and the prince did not exercise “social power” in a way that allowed him to claim to be the provider or arbiter of any sort of “public” benefit.
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