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Some manufactures we could make, but are forbidden, and must take them of British merchants: the whole price is a tax paid to Britain.
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gutenberg.orgBenjamin Franklin: “Some manufactures we could make, but are forbidden, and must take them of British merchants: the whole price is a tax…”
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Franklin argues that colonial restrictions on manufacturing force them to rely on British merchants, which he views as a form of taxation.
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