It is, at best, only a robbery of one home laborer--the producer of cotton, tobacco, grain, beef, pork, butter, or cheese--for the benefit of another home laborer--the producer of iron or woolen goods.
Spooner describes the unfairness of benefiting one laborer at the expense of another through taxation.
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Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.