Ordinary revenues expanded apace with the royal domains; taxes ceased to be exceptional.
And governments that lose their tax systems cease to exist.
As Felix Salmon and others have pointed out, the initial flurry of panicked e-mails from bankers requesting relocation to New York City to avoid the tax will cease once cooler minds remind them that next year things will be different.
Others suggested ending funding for pre-K education, cutting government jobs, taxing groceries, ceasing road maintenance, or quadrupling property taxes for farmers, a proposal that residents said would make them move away.
So, apparently, has any rule that UK banks which accept UK state aid must cease tax avoidance.
If that guidepost could be spread across Congress -- replacing the prevailing view that public spending is by nature wasteful and a drag on the economy -- then tax cuts would cease to be so mesmerizing.
As Mr. Obama promised throughout 2008, but has completely failed to follow up on, we must once and for all close the cascade of available corporate income tax loopholes while ceasing to reward corporations for closing plants and shipping jobs to countries like China.
However jokingly expressed, the state's tax department has, indeed, ceased to be an obstacle.
Ms. Gratz's letter contends that the group has been "in financial crisis since March 2010" in part because of Mr. Connerly's salary and legal fees related to the tax investigations, and has "ceased almost entirely" doing projects furthering its mission since June 2011.
President Bush, his economic policymakers and tax relief advocates should cease referring to the excess money Washington is taking from us as budget surpluses.
The senior ExxonMobil executive played David to the onslaught of Goliath, expressing gratitude for the Sierra Club senior executive's gracious input and explaining why the company supports a carbon tax and long ago ceased funding groups that are ideologically anti-climate.
