The View from England: Churchill had tax advice for Chile
Chile President Sebastian Pinera speaking to the media in July 2019. Credit: Government of Chile.
Quite apart from being exactly the stoical leader we needed during WWII, Winston Churchill was surely the most quotable politician in history. His exhortations relating to the six-year conflict are legendary but Churchill also had some pithy observations about business.
“Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon,” Churchill told Parliament. On taxation, he argued that: “For a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”