"It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, sedition’s, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it." ~ Lord Thomas B. Macaulay, 1st Baron (1800—1859) The Scythian Philosopher, Anacharsis (6th century BC), is claimed to have penned: "Written laws are like spiders’ webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them." Anacharsis’ truism contains the very essence of what we know as … Continue reading Oppressive Centralism