Nero Wolfe on Taxes

seems like a good day to post this…

Nero Wolfe Back CoversA man condemning the income tax because of the annoyance it gives him or the expense it puts him to is merely a dog baring its teeth, and he forfeits the privileges of civilized discourse. But it is permissible to criticize it on other and impersonal grounds. A government, like an individual, spends money for any or all of three reasons: because it needs to, because it wants to, or simply because it has it to spend. The last is much the shabbiest. It is arguable, if not manifest, that a substantial proportion of this great spring flood of billions pouring into the Treasury will in effect get spent for that last shabby reason.

–Nero Wolfe
from And Be a Villain

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2 Comments

  1. Very apropos…

  2. Interesting post – especially because the picture of Wolfe was lifted from my blog. How do I know? Because I scanned it from the back of a book in my collection that I first acquired in 1981. It has a scratch in the background that’s on my book. The entire blog entry can be read at “A Seventeen Step Program”: https://17stepprogram.blogspot.com/2016/01/re-reading-nero-wolfe-adventures-visit.html – Thanks! David Marcum, long-time Wolfe Pack member.

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