“Almost wherever you are in the twenty-first century developed world, the most expensive purchase you will ever make in your life is not your home, as many believe, but your government. For a typical British middle-class professional over the course of his or her life, the bill totals £3.6 million ($5 million) - far more than the typical house. You will spend 20 years of your life or more in obligatory service to the state. On a time basis, the state owns as much of your labour as the feudal lord did that of the medieval serf, who gave half his working week to farm the land of his lord in exchange for his protection.”

- Dominic Frisby, Daylight Robbery