The longer an economic or political discussion or debate lasts, the probability of someone proclaiming "Taxes are theft" approaches one.
We were arguing about raising taxes for the millionaires, and Joe broke Harvilla's Law when he said taxes were theft and that he isn't going to let the government steal his hard earned money.
The true grandfather of jet airliners. Sure it crashed a lot due to no knowledge about metal fatigue and material science but it paved the way forward for modern jets like the Airbus A350. Once it was figured out how metal fatigue works and addressed, comets dominated the sky.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)