A Healthy Economy in Substitution for Taxation

     "When merely by avoiding false objects of expense, we are able, without a direct tax, without internal taxes and, without borrowing to make large and effectual payments toward the discharge of our public debt and the emancipation of our posterity from that moral canker, it is an encouragement of the highest order, to proceed as we have begun, in substituting economy for taxation, and in pursuing what is useful for a nation placed as we are, rather than what is practiced by others under different circumstances."

-Thomas Jefferson

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