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In effect, it would be the most unjust and impolitic of all things,--unequal taxation.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “In effect, it would be the most unjust and impolitic of all things,--unequal taxation.”
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Burke critiques unequal taxation as fundamentally unjust and politically unwise.
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