If you mean to follow your true motive and your public faith, give up your tax on tea for raising a revenue, the principle of which has, in effect, been disclaimed in your name, and which produces you no advantage,--no, not a penny.
Burke argues for the repeal of the tea tax, emphasizing its lack of benefit to the government.
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