The View from England: Churchill had tax advice for Chile
Chile President Sebastian Pinera speaking to the media in July 2019. Credit: Government of Chile.
Quite apart from being exactly the stoical leader we needed during WWII, Winston Churchill was surely the most quotable politician in history. His exhortations relating to the six-year conflict are legendary but Churchill also had some pithy observations about business.
“Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon,” Churchill told Parliament. On taxation, he argued that: “For a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
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End the US war on Afghanistan
In the wake of Saturday’s horrific terror bombing outside a school in Kabul, there has been a significant escalation of a campaign within the US ruling establishment for a continuation of the murderous two-decades-long war in Afghanistan.
A massive car bomb followed by two other bomb blasts claimed 85 lives, while wounding nearly 200 others in a poor neighborhood of western Kabul that is predominantly Hazara, a Shia minority population. The majority of the victims were schoolgirls between the ages of 13 and 18.
U.S. Marines prepare to board helicopters at Forward Operating Base Dwyer, Afghanistan, July 2, 2009. (Photo by Chief Warrant Officer 3 Philippe E. Chasse)