Today’s quotation
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”The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.” —John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946)
Keynes is widely considered to be the father of modern macroeconomics, and by various commentators such as economist John Sloman, the most influential economist of the 20th century.In 1999, Time magazine included Keynes in their list of the 100 most important and influential people of the 20th century, commenting that; “His radical idea that governments should spend money they don’t have may have saved capitalism”. (wiki)