Government taxation fair and square will not be grudged by the citizens .. nor will the pro-rich concessions and an inconsiderate burden on the lower income groups be tolerated. Apathy of the citizens at confronting the supposedly 'high handed government' is the main cause of worse and worst administrations.

Its like the quote - 'If you want peace, wage a war' ! [Sorry I do not know its author].

Thanks for this very valuable quote. Conscience does not abide by majority rule in the sense it is 'more comprehensive than that' and not 'less'. It is not a deviation but a transcendance.

It is very good... prompts the teaching of ' the failed leaders of the past' at the school level itself.

The main cause for a successive and an unjustifiable 'differentiation' between Public finance and Private finance has been the ridiculous acts of doing away with 'economic ethics' ... in the name of Ism-s of sorts like capitalism, communism. feminism. and worst of all secularism - which has no etymological validity even !! Economics has slid down from the sublime to the ridiculous as it were....

Banks ! are just like our home safe-vaults. What with all the ups and downs of interest rates.. It's your money capital that you would be safeguarding. ... and that again provided: they safety vaults at the Bank or the guard are suffieciently robber-proof !!!! All thri instrument variations and othr fiscal jargaon not withstanding !!!!!!!

Roth bard is quite right in objecting to the leap from the necessity of sSociety to the necessity of State. As 'Scety' is the 'real Nation' and the Polity only its Official set up .. a State cannot sustain itself without its Sciety's genuine value co-ordinates.