Part of the money went into...the maintenance of the army and of the vast bureaucracy required by a centralized government... the expense led to the strangling taxation ... The heart was taken out of enterprising men ... tenants fled from their farms and businessmen and workmen from their occupations. Private enterprise was crushed and the state was forced to take over many kinds of business to keep the machine running. People learned to expect something for nothing. The old Roman virtues of self-reliance and initiative were lost in that part of the population on relief (welfare) ... The central government undertook such a far-reaching responsibility in affairs that the fiber of the citizens weakened. Source: The New Deal in Old Rome by Henry Haskell 11. Based on the text what was the effect of high taxation on the people of Rome?​