Excerpt from Essays and Speeches of Frank Bergen, Vol. 2 The fathers of our country, as we fondly call them, made war on the Mother of Nations on account of taxa tion; but in framing our state and federal constitutions they forgot to provide against excessive taxation in the future. Perhaps it was incredible in those days that representatives chosen by the people would be as indis creet in the exercise of the power of taxation as George the Third and his ministers were 150 years ago. How the current craze for taxing, and ...
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Excerpt from Essays and Speeches of Frank Bergen, Vol. 2 The fathers of our country, as we fondly call them, made war on the Mother of Nations on account of taxa tion; but in framing our state and federal constitutions they forgot to provide against excessive taxation in the future. Perhaps it was incredible in those days that representatives chosen by the people would be as indis creet in the exercise of the power of taxation as George the Third and his ministers were 150 years ago. How the current craze for taxing, and contracting public debts may culminate and terminate we shall prob ably know by and by, for it is quite certain that we are moving in a dangerous direction at a rapid pace, and the fact that not many of our fellow citizens seem to be dis turbed by it is, itself, one of the alarming features of the Situation. Taxpayers, like the rulers over Israel, should neither Slumber nor sleep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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