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The power to tax is the power to destroy

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 17, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories taxationTags John Marshall

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