The TSA vs. the People by Robert W. McGee

Robert Service based the poem on an experience of his roommate, Dr. Another interpretation has Sam McGee still alive and enjoying the warmth of the furnace fire in the style of a 'Tall Tale.' Sam has conned the narrator into trekking him to a warm location through the ruse of promising to have him cremated. Much to the narrator's surprise, he later discovers Sam's ghost in the makeshift crematorium, enjoying the warmth. After McGee dies the following day, the narrator winds up hauling the body clear to the 'marge of Lake Lebarge' before he finds a way to perform the promised cremation aboard a derelict steamer called the Alice May.

The narrator knows that 'A pal's last need is a thing to heed', and swears he will not fail to cremate him. The night prior to his death the title character, who is from the fictional town of Plumtree, Tennessee, asks the narrator 'to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains'. (A 'sourdough', in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge (spelled 'Lebarge' by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough.

The author addresses the major issues and topics in taxation and public finance and injects them with philosophical insights.' The Cremation of Sam McGee' is among the most famous of Robert W. It is written in nontechnical language and is aimed to appeal to a wide range of readers, including practitioners, academics and students in the fields of taxation, public finance, economics, law, philosophy and political science as well as general readers who are interested in learning why they are being taxed the way they are.

The Philosophy of Taxation and Public Finance is different. Philosophy books on taxation or public finance simply do not exist. Books on taxation are written for tax practitioners and usually emphasize either what the law is or how to maneuver through the labyrinth of tax law to minimize taxes for clients. They are overly technical in nature and appeal only to a narrow range of bureaucrats and academics.

Most public finance books are texts, which are aimed at undergraduate or graduate students.

The TSA vs. the People by Robert W. McGee