Vaccines, lies and damn statistics

If we run into such debts that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, that our people must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Worth recalling the words of one of the founding fathers of the US Thomas Jefferson, in a week where we’ve had calls for increased taxes to fund the vaccine rollout, revelations that we’ll be paying over the top for the Serum Institute stock due to government lethargy, further evidence of the tyranny of incompetence taxpayers are saddled with juxtaposed against the impressive inaugural address by US President Joe Biden and his team hitting the ground running. Michael Avery reviews the week with Warwick Lucas, chief investment officer at Galileo Asset Managers, & Raymond Parsons, professor in the School of Business and Governance at North West University