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Eye on Politics & Law Lords: What I Like About Scrooge
It is taxes, not misers, that need reforming.
Here's what I like about Ebenezer Scrooge: His meager lodgings were dark because darkness is cheap, and barely heated because coal is not free. His dinner was gruel, which he prepared himself. Scrooge paid no man to wait on him.
Scrooge has been called ungenerous. I say that's a bum rap. What could be more generous than keeping your lamps unlit and your plate unfilled, leaving more fuel for others to burn and more food for others to eat? Who is a more benevolent neighbor than the man who employs no servants, freeing them to wait on someone else?
• Maybe when Scrooge demands less coal for his fire, less coal ends up being mined. But that's fine, too
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