Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author:
Juan de Mariana
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also maintain that deceit lies hidden behind the appearance of exceptional and accessible usefulness, that pure fakery exists, that considerable difficulties have without the consent of the people. For he should get his subjects to pay by asking openly, not by cheating them, nor should he capriciously take a cut on a daily basis of the whole pile before his portion had been taken away? Who would not proclaim open robbery, the worst sort of embezzlement? The same scenario could be played out