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Bill Taft: “The danger is not so much that the class of users in whose favor the classification purports to be made will receive…”

On the recordAugust 17, 1911
The danger is not so much that the class of users in whose favor the classification purports to be made will receive more benefit than the framers of the law may have intended, but it is that many who do not belong to the class intended to be favored will import articles suitable for the prescribed use under the general terms of the statute, but will use them for other and general purposes.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval 'An Act to Place on the Free List Agricultural...'

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