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Lysander Spooner: “Nor does any banking corporation allow a majority to impose taxes upon the members for the payment of the corporate…”

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Nor does any banking corporation allow a majority to impose taxes upon the members for the payment of the corporate expenses, except in such proportions as every member has consented that they may be imposed.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner illustrates that corporations do not allow majority rule to impose taxes without consent.

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