#Tax #Burden vs #Philosophy
#Taxes #System of #People ?
"Leave the Americans as they anciently stood, and these distinctions, born of our unhappy contest, will die along with it ….
Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it ….
Do not burthen them with taxes…. But if intemperately, unwisely, fatally, you sophisticate and poison the very source of government by urging subtle deductions, and consequences odious to those you govern, from the unlimited and illimitable nature of supreme sovereignty, you will teach them by these means to call that sovereignty itself in question ….
If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body of men will be argued into #slavery."
