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Woodrow Wilson: In a country of great industries like this it ought to be easy to distribute the burdens of taxation without making them…

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In a country of great industries like this it ought to be easy to distribute the burdens of taxation without making them anywhere bear too heavily or too exclusively upon any one set of persons or undertakings.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson believes that tax burdens can be fairly distributed among industries and individuals.

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