Hari Seldon knocked gently with an old-fashioned code and Yugo Amaryl looked up. "Hari, how nice of you to drop around."
    "I should do it more often. In the old days we were together all the time. Now there are hundreds of people to worry about-here, there, and everywhere-and they get between us. Have you heard the news?"
    "What news?"
    "The junta is going to set up a poll tax-a nice substantial one. It will be announced on TrantorVision tomorrow. It will be just Trantor for now and the Outer Worlds will have to wait. That's a little disappointing. I had hoped it would be Empire-wide all at once, but apparently I didn't give the General enough credit for caution."
    Amaryl said, "Trantor will be enough. The Outer Worlds will know that their turn will follow in not too long a time."
    "Now we'll have to see what happens."
    "What will happen is that the shouting will start the instant the announcement is out and the riots will begin, even before the new tax goes into effect."
    "Are you sure of it?"
    Amaryl put his Prime Radiant into action at once and expanded the appropriate section. "See f............