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4400. LAND TAX, Proposed.—[continued].

If the expenses should
exceed three millions they[the federalists] will undertake a land tax. Indeed a land tax
is the decided resource of many, perhaps of a
majority. There is an idea of some of the Connecticut
members to raise the whole money
wanted by a tax on salt; so much do they dread
a land tax.—
To James Madison. Ford ed., vii, 243.
(1798)