Therefore the tax laid upon foreign commodities, that have been bought with the products of our home labor, is as much a robbery of the home laborer, as the same tax would have been, if laid directly upon the products of our home labor.
Spooner equates taxes on foreign goods to robbery of domestic laborers.
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