Taxman
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and do the best you can with whatever you have left. As long as Caesar baked in enough bread for the circus, everything was hunky dory. We all want the roads that lead to Rome and what would the world be without indoor plumbing. But when the powers that be ask us to cough up a greater chunk of our hard-earned cash year after year so that they can drive better chariots, it kind of makes you sour on this exercise of taxation beyond explanation.