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"
About
a
method
of
taxing
the
income
taxers
.
All
methods
of
taxation
are
complex
,
but
this
one
is
very
simple
,
because
it
’
s
the
naked
essence
of
all
the
others
.
Let
me
explain
it
to
you
.
"
She
listened
.
She
heard
a
sparkling
voice
reciting
,
in
the
tone
of
a
dryly
meticulous
bookkeeper
,
a
report
about
financial
transfers
,
bank
accounts
,
income
-
tax
returns
,
as
if
he
were
reading
the
dusty
pages
of
a
ledger
—
a
ledger
where
every
entry
was
made
by
means
of
offering
his
own
blood
as
the
collateral
to
be
drained
at
any
moment
,
at
any
slip
of
his
bookkeeping
pen
.
As
she
listened
,
she
kept
seeing
the
perfection
of
his
face
—
and
she
kept
thinking
that
this
was
the
head
on
which
the
world
had
placed
a
price
of
millions
for
the
purpose
of
delivering
it
to
the
rot
of
death
.
.
.
The
face
she
had
thought
too
beautiful
for
the
scars
of
a
productive
career
—
she
kept
thinking
numbly
,
missing
half
his
words
—
the
face
too
beautiful
to
risk
.
.
.
Then
it
struck
her
that
his
physical
perfection
was
only
a
simple
illustration
,
a
childish
lesson
given
to
her
in
crudely
obvious
terms
on
the
nature
of
the
outer
world
and
on
the
fate
of
any
human
value
in
a
subhuman
age
.
Whatever
the
justice
or
the
evil
of
his
course
,
she
thought
,
how
could
they
.
.
.
no
!
she
thought
,
his
course
was
just
,
and
this
was
the
horror
of
it
,
that
there
was
no
other
course
for
justice
to
select
,
that
she
could
not
condemn
him
,
that
she
could
neither
approve
nor
utter
a
word
of
reproach
.
"
.
.
.
and
the
names
of
my
customers
,
Miss
Taggart
,
were
chosen
slowly
,
one
by
one
.
I
had
to
be
certain
of
the
nature
of
their
character
and
career
.
On
my
list
of
restitution
,
your
name
was
one
of
the
first
.
"
She
forced
herself
to
keep
her
face
expressionlessly
tight
,
and
she
answered
only
,
"
I
see
.
"
"
Your
account
is
one
of
the
last
left
unpaid
.
It
is
here
,
at
the
Mulligan
Bank
,
to
be
claimed
by
you
on
the
day
when
you
join
us
.
"
"
I
see
.
"
"
Your
account
,
however
,
is
not
as
large
as
some
of
the
others
,
even
though
huge
sums
were
extorted
from
you
by
force
in
the
past
twelve
years
.
You
will
find
—
as
it
is
marked
on
the
copies
oЈ
your
income
-
tax
returns
which
Mulligan
will
hand
over
to
you
—
that
I
have
refunded
only
those
taxes
which
you
paid
on
the
salary
you
earned
as
Operating
Vice
-
President
,
but
not
the
taxes
you
paid
on
your
income
from
your
Taggart
Transcontinental
stock
.
You
deserved
every
penny
of
that
stock
,
and
in
the
days
of
your
father
I
would
have
refunded
every
penny
of
your
profit
—
but
under
your
brother
’
s
management
,
Taggart
Transcontinental
has
taken
its
share
of
the
looting
,
it
has
made
profits
by
force
,
by
means
of
government
favors
,
subsidies
,
moratoriums
,
directives
.
You
were
not
responsible
for
it
,
you
were
,
in
fact
,
the
greatest
victim
of
that
policy
—
but
I
refund
only
the
money
which
was
made
by
pure
productive
ability
,
not
the
money
any
part
of
which
was
loot
taken
by
force
.
"
"
I
see
.
"
