ABSTRACT
Taxation morality, while it permitted collections from liquor and tobacco, refused to permit the Government to take anything by way of lotteries and gambling. In the confusion created by the last-ditch defenders of the faith in the essential malevolence of government, a clear note of common sense is beginning to be heard. With hospitals facing a crisis because heavy taxation has curbed philanthropy and with doctors called upon to treat the needy at least partly at their own expense, some form of State medicine is inevitable. The rich wanted to broaden the income-tax base so that the poor would vote against public improvements. The whole complicated process is a product of the ideology which keeps government in its place by not permitting it to raise money in pleasant ways. In the case of governmental organization, every mistake is a tax on posterity.
