If enough people aren't doing the above then the money spent on taxes is indeed wasted or even counterproductive and it's easy to see how many would become libertards or Randroids who, like Lincoln, would prefer to take their despotism straight, unalloyed by the base metal of hypocrisy.

The lawyer counselled his client to remain silent.

The East Neuk indeed is infinitely more suggestive of a Stevensonian tragedy than the Ayrshire village, with the valley of the Stinchar steeped in peace and eupepticity behind it, which has given its name to the grimmest and keenest story of human diabolism ever written.

The external circumstances are greatly different.