“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
Compensation (Primary source)
Emerson explores the law of compensation, suggesting that every action (cause) has a corresponding reaction (effect), meaning that there is no free lunch, but we get what we give.
“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
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