tax

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

a heavy tax on time or health

Flie far from hence

All private taxes, immodest phrases,

What e'r may but shew like vicious.