"Tax is solidarity" - Theodore Dalrymple diagnoses France's malaise: Their intellectuals' belief that tax is solidarity and justice is fairness - but the national sport is tax evasion (February 28, 2007).
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Where tax is solidarity, the national sport is tax evasion.
— Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
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About Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
Anthony Daniels (born 11 October 1949) is an English writer and retired physician (prison doctor and psychiatrist) who frequently uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple.
About Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
Anthony Daniels (born 11 October 1949) is an English writer and retired physician (prison doctor and psychiatrist) who frequently uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple.
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