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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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it's called theft

It needs to be said clearly: letting countries that grew rich thanks to intra-European trade siphon off their neighbors’ tax base has absolutely nothing to do with free markets. It’s called theft. And lending money to people who’ve stolen from us without asking anything in return so as to ensure it…

—p.76 The Scandal of the Irish Bank Bailout (75) by Thomas Piketty
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rentiers

Out of ideology, and probably incompetence as well, the tax shield instituted by the current administration functions in practice as a machine for subsidizing rentiers.

—p.70 Does Liliane Bettencourt Pay Taxes? (68) by Thomas Piketty
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