Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement…

Leo Tolstoy
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Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata
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