“If each person actually produced all, or an equivalent of what he consumed, then the consumer would ultimately pay all cost of goods, _including_ taxes; but this is not the case. The Marsites have _two_ classes of persons who consume and do not produce, namely, _infants_ and _disabled persons_; you have _four_ classes, namely, _infants_, _disabled persons_, _idlers_, and _unproductive and destructive laborers_. We can easily see that all those who do not actually earn or produce wealth cannot pay anything without they receive it in some way from the _actual_ producer. Hence we see that the productive laborer--the actual producer--has produced _all_ the wealth and must, therefore, ultimately pay all cost, taxes included. “I have already told you how many persons here on earth get wealth without producing it; but I shall here give you a few additional examples. “An earthite may, by gambling at the Board of Trade, become a millionaire without producing a single mouthful of food, and if he is a millionaire, he may also become a pauper. A sudden rise or fall of 25 cents in the price of a bushel of wheat will make some rich and others poor; but there is no production of wheat in these transactions, and the transactions are more than useless, as you can easily see by examining our commercial system. All there is in such useless transactions is that one set of schemers succeed in fleecing another set of schemers without producing any wealth. “Some of your people grow rich in dollars without labor by buying a lot, keep it for a few years, and then sell it for a thousand or ten thousand times as much as they paid for it. You may grow rich by a patent and a copyright; but no matter how you grow rich without labor it is always by profit, interest, rent, taxes, gift, or the varying purchasing power of your dollar. “Now let me give you a few more examples showing that the rich man, as a rule, pays little or no taxes. “A duty on goods is paid by the consumer as far as he actually earns what he consumes or an equivalent thereof; but, if the consumer, like an infant or social parasite, does not earn what he consumes, or an equivalent, the producer, the laborer, pays that proportion of it which the consumer does not actually earn or produce. “Now let us take a merchant and see who pays his taxes.