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Current taxation obstructs trade and penalizes energy, industry, skill and thrift
Drawn from what Henry George said
Subjectenergy
What Henry George actually said
- Henry George American political economist (1839 to 1897)
The present method of taxation operates upon exchange like artificial deserts and mountains; it costs more to get goods through a custom house than it does to carry them around the world. It operates upon energy, and industry, and skill, and thrift, like a fine upon those qualities.
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↗Progress and Poverty (1879; Memorial Edition)gutenberg.org
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