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You may seem to give much, when you abandon sources of State taxation; but you can give nothing that will not be returned tenfold, a hundred-fold, when the currency at last becomes fixed and uniform.
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Sumner argues that sacrifices in state taxation will lead to greater returns through a stable currency.
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