…codes,

“One is, therefore, in fairly sedate baby-kissing company if one says (perhaps overcautiously) that the tax structure is a pullulating excrescence negating common sense, a parody of the gruesomely ludicrous, a surrealist zigzag pagoda of pestilent greed, a perverse thing that makes the prerevolutionary French system seem entirely rational.”—Ferdinand Lundberg, The Rich and the Super-rich, Bantam Books, Inc., 1968, Page 391.