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«When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the f»
Author: Grover Cleveland
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administration, economical, exacted, exaction, expenses, extortion, Meet The, obligations, ruthless, sustenance, taxation, the F, violation, violations
«They prey on their own with extortion and protection rackets, in a culture where people don't go to the police and where most police don't speak the language.»
«Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?»
«Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.»
«In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.»
«Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!»
«From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?»
Author: Thomas Paine
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Government
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beginnings, continual, expected, extortion, governments, system
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