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Von Bernstorff may have been a poor diplomat but he was a good prophet. Beginning in 1*14, with a very modest share of the citizens’ earnings, this tax is now extracting from individuals alone more than 27 billion dollars per year or $460 for every working person in the country.

Taxation in the United States has passed the point of oppression. About all that can be said is that the tax forms of our Internal Revenue department do not yet bear the flourish of royal decree.

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