Word: harshest
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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There are thus insuperable difficulties in a system of taxing everything, and the harshest measures must be adopted to make such a system even moderately successful. The tax-payers in Boston are denied the privileges of criminals. The system is not American, but a relic of Rome. Every civilized nation except the United States has discarded...