And this it has succeeded in doing for the last twenty years; to the destruction of the rights, and the impoverishment and immeasurable injury of all the people, except the few holders of the monopoly.
Spooner asserts that the tax has harmed the rights and welfare of the general populace while benefiting a few.
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