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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.

By:	Jean Baptiste Colbert (more quotes by Jean Baptiste Colbert or books by/about Jean Baptiste Colbert)
	(1619-1693), French economist and Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV
Categories:	Dissent, Politics, Taxation
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Kindle Categories:	Taxation

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