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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get th

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. – Jean Baptist Colbert, attributed

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Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789 November 13th

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Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. – Albert Bushnell Hart, Actual Government, 1903

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