The taste of revenue is to a government like the taste of blood to a wild beast, exciting and maddening the energies, so that it becomes deaf to suggestions of justice; and the difficulties must increase, where this taxation is enforced by a comprehensive monopoly.
Sumner compares the government's desire for revenue to a wild beast's thirst for blood, emphasizing its corrupting nature.
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