Lisi Reisz wrote:
[snip]Because it's not a tax.In effect, it is an apothecated tax. But we are reluctant to acknowledge that.
I did a duckduckgo search for "apothecated". I got a bunch of colonial dictionaries. Their definitions seemed to make no sense in context.
What's the Crown's definition?P.S. I've been been fascinated by linguistics for > .5 century due to Latin teacher reputed to have tutored Romulus et al and an English teacher reciting Beowulf in "original" with a running translation [*NOTE BENE* the quotation marks ;]
Paraphrasing 'somebody', "Inquiring minds want to know".