Our internal-revenue laws and impost system should be so adjusted as to bear most heavily on articles of luxury, leaving the necessaries of life as free from taxation as may be consistent with the real wants of the Government, economically administered.
Johnson advocates for a tax system that burdens luxury items while protecting essential goods from heavy taxation.
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