It is truly taxation without representation. The Nation should have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else. There is no such thing as a good tax. The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. It would be strange if taxation by interest groups should not result in taxation according to interest. Bake it into pies, probably.