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Because other nations have not undertaken to equalize this burden, is that a reason why we should not set the example?
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Sumner challenges the notion that the lack of action by other nations should deter the U.S. from pursuing tax equality.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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