"The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep."

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Source : Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

Russell Baker

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