From a conversation with eventhewaves...

[missroserose]

...about the similar "make the rich richer" theories shared by Baroque French and current Republican forms of government:


3 billion yards of fabric: $20 billion

300,000 rice-powder wigs: $90 million

Everybody in America looking like they just stepped off the set of Dangerous Liaisons: Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's tax cuts.

If anybody wants to make this into an icon for me, I'd be eternally indebted...