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Sunday, March 23, 2025
Sounds Familiar
Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969; rpt. 1975), p. 13:
Taxation had
doubled, even trebled, within living memory. The poor were
victimized by an insane inflation. The rich defended themselves by
unparalleled accumulations of property.