• We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

    John Sherman: We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.
    John Sherman (1879). “Selected Speeches and Reports on Finance and Taxation, from 1859 to 1878”