Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions…

Edmund Burke
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them? ✨ Edmund Burke (1839). The Works of Edmund Burke, p.157
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them? ✨ Edmund Burke (1839). The Works of Edmund Burke, p.157

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