Quote of the Day (Russell Baker, on the Government and the Rich)

“The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.”—Pulitzer Prize-winning American humorist, reporter, and memoirist Russell Baker (1925-2019), So This Is Depravity and Other Observations (1980)

Baker wrote this in the Carter Administration. Imagine what he might have written after reading about the plan signed off by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in which the Internal Revenue Service would be “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED” from all audits of “any matters currently pending” relating to President Trump, his family and his businesses.