“To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.” – Benjamin Disraeli
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“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy,”, attributed to Daniel Webster and SCOTUS Justice John Marshall, among others.
I would re-phrase that to, “The power to tax is the power to reward and to punish”.