![When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.](/assets/img/quote-photos/when-the-fountains-of-government-borrowing-abundance-began-to-dry-up-when-thro.jpg)
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