I therefore registered vigorous dissent and damned all state governments very heartily. My opponent was broad-minded enough to admit the justice of my contention, as he himself found that whisky was a very much more satisfactory medium for "getting on top of the world" (I think that was the expression he used), "but nevertheless the President.. But I have promised not to touch on politics, and ar afraid I have already overstepped the limits I had prescribed. I shall therefore not detail our interesting argument in which after a time the barman and some of the other customers joined.
It all arose from my grumbling, when the barman returned me a handful of tax tokens with my Change. These tax tokens are pieces of some light metal with a hole in the middle. What their purpose is I never properly discovered, for it is a complicated business and I never got the hang of it. Some states have what is called a sales tax. An
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