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When I first began studying public finance, I was taught that there were three principles of taxation, all stemming from the seventeenth-century French politician Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s dictum to “so [pluck] the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.”

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Let's imagine that you are really good at making arrowheads, but you're hopeless at making the wooden shafts with the flight feathers attached.

I don't have feathers.

And she talked about how technology with these new feathers, this new face paint, this punk, the way that we identify with the world, and we made this music video.

Please take this music with you home, and start gluing feathers to your arms and take off and fly, and look at the world from a different perspective.

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