I am going to talk about everyone’s least favorite subject, not death, the other one. At its best, taxation is how a citizenry funds the services it feels are be best provided by its elected government. Business and non-profits pick up the balance. Business charges for its free market goods and services while the charitable [...]
Indulge me. Although my patient wife and editor exhorts me not to use arcane words, but to write in simple declarative English sentences, I am going to declare a holiday from Strunk and White writing and indulge myself. “Schadenfreude,” there I said it. Schadenfreude is the frisson– that would be a tremor of sensual pleasure [...]
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"Bill Schubart’s Vermont stories of a mostly-forgotten time and place are fresh,authentic, funny in places and sad in others. He knows his corner of the GreenMountains inside out and writes with honesty and grace about its people."
— Howard Frank Mosher, author of Disappearances, Mary Blythe, and On Kingdom Mountain
August 08, 2007 