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The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.