• Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

    Thomas Jefferson: Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.
    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.382, Cosimo, Inc.