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Edmund Burke: If you do, you give its death-wound to your English revenue at home, and to one of the very greatest articles of your…

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If you do, you give its death-wound to your English revenue at home, and to one of the very greatest articles of your own foreign trade.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke warns that imposing certain taxes could severely harm English revenue and trade.

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