The Jeffersonian cyclopedia; a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.; |
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8300. TAXATION, Luxuries.— |
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8300. TAXATION, Luxuries.—
The government
which steps out of the ranks of the
ordinary articles of consumption to select and
lay under disproportionate burdens a particular
one, because it is a comfort, pleasing to
the taste, or necessary to the health, and will,
therefore, be bought, is, in that particular, a
tyranny.—
To Samuel Smith. Washington ed. vii, 285.
Ford ed., x, 252.
(M.
1823)
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