Budget 2012 - Atlas Shrugged?
Legal Corner Icon — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured.THIS is a picture given in the ”key features of Budget 2012-2013” in http://indiabudget.nic.in.
This looks like a picture of a struggling Atlas not being able to bear the weight of the Earth he is carrying on his shoulders. When the weight of the Earth is unbearable, what does Atlas do? SHRUG and nothing else! That seems to be the plight of the Indian taxpayer struggling to carry the weight of a Government he can at best ill afford.
But in Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, the Nation's most enterprising citizens refuse to be exploited by increasing taxation and government regulations and disappear with a hope to demonstrate that a world in which the individual is not free to create is doomed, that civilization cannot exist where every person is a slave to society and government, and that the destruction of the profit motive leads to the collapse of society.
The poor Indian Atlas is about to shrug with the unbearable Government load on him and if he shrugs …….. ?
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