Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.
I'm not a sheep.