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It is, indeed, a tax of sophistry, a tax of pedantry, a tax of disputation, a tax of war and rebellion, a tax for anything but benefit to the imposers or satisfaction to the subject.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques a tax that serves no beneficial purpose for either the government or the people.
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