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Sambaran Mitra's avatar

Two reasons why we suffer like this:

1. The ruling class loves taxes because everyone loves power. Even if they are financially honest and not stealing money from the public treasury, there is a satisfaction of wielding power by spending public funds on their own discretion. The same phenomenon happens at many Resident-Welfare-Association levels.

2. The more disturbing reason does not lie with the politician. It lies in the hearts and minds of we-the-people. We expect the government to take care of a bunch of positive rights in the name of positive externality (universal taxpayer-funded education, healthcare, whatnot). A society with such an attitude, at its heart, loves taxation. It loves it because it thinks somebody else (those evil people who are better off than me and must be hurt in some way) is paying for the oh-so-virtual social causes.

On a different note, I still wake up in cold sweat thinking about my lack of preparation in final semester for engineering mathematics. I am working for 2+decades but the academic nightmare persists. I read in a discussion thread that exam fear is pretty deep rooted worldwide which creates nightmares like these, even in people past their eighties!

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Tarun Bhargava's avatar

You did not explain why on earth did the headmaster can you people for 10/10 in an essay ?

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Mohit Satyanand's avatar

It was a nightmare - like taxes.

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