A country does not go bankrupt.

We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

A country does not go bankrupt.

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.