The greatest evil a government can commit is to overtax its people. I have warned my own country about this, and I fear that this
has fallen upon deaf ears. So here's the voice of another in story form: "Yosef had told Peter there was a breaking strain on people
as well as on ropes and chains, and so there is---the farmers and the merchants of Delain had nearly reached theirs. The rope by
which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty---loyalty to King, to country, to government. Flagg
knew that if he made the tax-blocks big enough, all the ropes would snap..."
[Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon, Page 336, Signet;
NAL Penguin Inc., New York, 1988].
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