"It is always well to learn about what is subtractable from the taxes."
"But Master", said Ven, "we are so poor that we can never subtract anything!"
"True enough, yet you are a tax-payer all the same. When you ever buy anything, you pay tax. This means that you also pay for that what others subtract from it. Learning about it makes you aware of the facts, the Way, of your purse. See the man on the stage. He's an empty head as ever there was one, excepting the very sparse 'real' artists. When he is dressed in a white tuxedo with glitterings on it, who paid for it?"
"Is not it himself Master?"
"Naturally it is, but then, half of it is paid for by the taxpayer, i.e. you, the other half by those who buy a ticket for the performance, part of which, again, is tax. So you see, often it is throwing good money after bad, very bad, one might say."
"But then, Master, people who leave doors open, letting KWH's out, who leave taps running in toilets, who litter the streets, they ... ?"
"Yes, they all pay for it themselves and the salary of the policeman who gives them a ticket for it. That is the Way."