Richard W. Fulmer, in a blog post titled Whipping the Fast Ox pulls an item from Commanding Heights, the battle for the world economy. He notes that after Mao's death there were some within the Chinese Communist Party who recognized a problem with putting a heavy tax burden on the most successful.
"Whipping the fast ox" was the analogy they used, and what a great one that is. If the most productive are punished then there would be no incentive to excel. It's really that simple.
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