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Thomas Jefferson Quotes: Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.
         

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.


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