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William Graham Sumner

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“The history of civil liberty is made up of campaigns against abuses of taxation. Protectionism is the great modern abuse of taxation; the abuse of taxation which is adapted to a republican form of government. Protectionism is now corrupting our political institutions just as slavery used to do.”


William Graham Sumner, “Protectionism: the ‑ism which teaches that waste makes wealth” (1888)

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