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And this additional price is sheer robbery, and is known to be so.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner labels the additional prices consumers pay as sheer robbery.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.