Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Ben Franklin explains why Some Rich People - Warren Buffet, for example - want Everyone to Pay More Taxes.

"There will always be a party for giving more to the rulers, that the rulers may be able in return to give more to them."
Franklin, Dangers of a Settled Bureaucracy (1787)
That comes from Ward Farnsworth's excellent "Farnsworth's Classic English Rhetoric" who offers Franklin's quote as an example of a "chiasmus."

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