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  "textContent": "[T]hat we have, with regard to taxes, an instance of what frequently happens in political institutions, that the consequences of things are diametrically opposite to what we should expect on the first appearance.—David Hume (1752) Of Taxes",
  "title": "On Hume's counterintuitive theory of taxes"
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