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The goose hisses

by Jim Elliott
| August 3, 2023 12:00 AM

[A French finance minister of long ago compared collecting taxes to plucking a live goose. The object was to get the greatest amount of feathers with the least amount of hiss. Dogs growl, geese hiss...

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