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Under pretence, therefore, of relieving the people, and of exercising the sovereignty in their right, at one stroke they abolished all the duties and taxes, they shut up all the treasuries.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke criticizes the pretense of relief that led to the abolition of duties and taxes.
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