Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothi… - Thomas Hodgskin

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Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothing but the pockets of their subjects.

Thomas Hodgskin

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Thomas Hodgskin (12 December 1787 – 21 August 1869) was an English socialist writer on political economy, critic of capitalism and defender of free trade and early trade unions. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the term socialist included any opponent of capitalism, at the time defined as a construed political system built on privileges for the owners of capital.

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Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothing but the pockets of their subjects. - Thomas Hodgskin

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