Imagine that the Internal Revenue Service in your country claimed that you owe $1000 plus in tax arrears.
You dispute this, and you challenge the tax people in court, but the court rules that they’re right. Especially if you’re a person of substantial means, you’d pay up with a shrug of the shoulders. “Too bad,” you’ll [...]

I want to tell you a little story. Not about anything dramatic. Not at all. On the contrary, it’s very ordinary.
So ordinary, in fact, that the many onlookers who must have been standing around didn’t bat an eyelid when they overheard this brief conversation in a busy butcher shop. Hardly surprising that it made no [...]