For my feelings, see Harry’s War (1981) starring Edward Herrmann, Geraldine Page, David Ogden Stiers, and Elisha Cook Jr. Here’s a quote from the movie:
Harry Johnson: If I was accused of murder I would have more legal rights than I know what to do with. But when the IRS audits you, they make you think you don’t have any rights at all. They make their own laws. And they administer them, and they enforce them, and they prosecute them, and they judge them. All that power in one place, boy. Hitler would have loved the IRS. So would Napoleon and Caesar, they’d understand it. I don’t.
It’s sounds to me like she believes that Gus “being happy” involves activities that are as Alexander Woollcott said, “illegal, immoral, or fattening” and likely to shorten his life.
For my feelings, see Harry’s War (1981) starring Edward Herrmann, Geraldine Page, David Ogden Stiers, and Elisha Cook Jr. Here’s a quote from the movie:
Harry Johnson: If I was accused of murder I would have more legal rights than I know what to do with. But when the IRS audits you, they make you think you don’t have any rights at all. They make their own laws. And they administer them, and they enforce them, and they prosecute them, and they judge them. All that power in one place, boy. Hitler would have loved the IRS. So would Napoleon and Caesar, they’d understand it. I don’t.