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4.
"That it should encourage production, not sabotage it.
5.
"That it should NOT create crimes, i.e., turn simple mercantile
utility into contraventions of statute." 6
Perhaps some scholar will eventually make a study of the coincidence
of confiscatory rates of taxation and the decline of a nation.
Americans pay the highest rates of taxation ever suffered by any
citizens, including those of Soviet Russia. Tax rates less than half
those presently levied against our people have caused bloody revolutions
in the past, notably the Rebellion of '76.
Some observers of the literary scene have suggested that Pound
as a teacher will finally outweigh Pound as a poet, but such a prediction
depends largely upon the supposition, or the hope, that an
epic poem greater than the Cantos will be written in our time.
Pound's preeminence as a teacher and a poet is based upon his
concern with essentials and his impatience with trivialities. The
talent that breathlessly flung aside the dusty drapes of the Victorian
era in search of "the real thing" has come into its own.