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my farm and complete the allotted span of my existence. Only twice a year I have to risk my life. The rest is peaceful enodgh and not to be compared with the daily round of annoyance which falls to the share of my fellow villagers. And even though I were to die now in this employ, I should still have outlived almost all of my contemporaries. Can I then complain ?’ “The story gave me food for much sad reflection. I have always doubted the saying of Confucius that 'bad government is worse than a tiger/ but now I feel its truth. Alasl who would think that a tax-collector is more venomous than a snake?” What Liu Tsung Yuan said eleven hundred years ago i* just as true today. It always has been and ever will be, an immutable law of economics that when governments squander the substance of the people, thereby necessitating the levying of backbreaking taxes, the people come to abhor those taxes more than the risk of death itself.
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