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To join together the restraints of an universal internal and external monopoly with an universal internal and external taxation is an unnatural union,--perfect, uncompensated slavery.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the combination of monopoly and taxation as a form of slavery, emphasizing the unnaturalness of such a union.
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