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Properly regarded under such a policy, every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy Confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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Jackson argues that reducing public tax burdens empowers individual enterprise and patriotism.

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