One Sure Way To Determine The Social Conscience Of A Government Is To Examine The Way Taxes Are Collected And How They Are Spent.

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One sure way to determine the social conscience of a Government is to
examine the way taxes are collected and how they are spent. And one
sure way to determine the social conscience of an individual is to get
his tax-reaction. Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the
privileges of membership in an organized society.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, campaign address,
-- Worcester, Mass., Oct. 21, 1936.

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