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This approach is hopelessly myopic, because there is no way to evaluate the fairness of any distribution of tax burdens relative to income if you consider this distribution in isolation from the values that a society esteems and aims to uphold.

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Stanley Kubrick, a director who I hold in the highest of esteems for his masterpieces (Clockwork Orange, 2001, The Killing, the Shining, Dr. Strangelove, etc) took the film out of circulation, leaving it to be found by only the hardcore fans and completists.

In showing kindness to his cousins therefore he had the real satisfaction of a good heart; and in settling a family of females only in his cottage, he had all the satisfaction of a sportsman; for a sportsman, though he esteems only those of his sex who are sportsmen likewise, is not often desirous of encouraging their taste by admitting them to a residence within his own manor.

I have always heard him spoken of as such, and your brother I know esteems him highly.

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