Nothing, Sir, could have met my ideas more than such a tax, if it was considered as a practical satire on that war, and as a penalty upon those who led us into it; but in any other view it appeared to me very liable to objections.
Burke critiques a proposed tax, viewing it as a satire on war rather than a fair measure.
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