By suffering the several districts, and several of the individuals in each district, to judge of what part of the old revenue they might withhold, instead of better principles of equality, a new inequality was introduced of the most oppressive kind.
Criticizing the French National Assembly's financial policies, Burke argues that allowing local discretion in tax payment led to new and oppressive forms of inequality.
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