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Tax luxuries, tax necessaries, tax everything else; but do not tax education.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Tax luxuries, tax necessaries, tax everything else; but do not tax education.”
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Sumner advocates for taxing luxuries and necessities but firmly opposes taxing education.
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