Explain the tax of idleness

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Read The Way to Wealth Benjamin Franklin

Note: "Poor Richard" is Franklin's pseudonym for another book he wrote, Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection of idioms and phrases with which you very well might be familiar. So, yes, Franklin quotes his own book in this book.

Answer the following questions:

1.) How does Franklin distinguish between government taxes and the others? For example, how does he explain the tax of idleness?

2.) In what way does Franklin's essay reinforce the Puritan/Protestant Work Ethic? Give quotation.

3.) Choose two idioms/adages from the essay and state whether you agree with them or not. Explain why or why not.

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