The streets had never any names until the assessment of the direct tax in the administration of President Adams.
The gentleman from Delaware says we drove them to the direct tax.
Will the gentleman say, that the direct tax was laid in order to enlarge the bounds of patronage?
Of all kinds of direct tax, none, perhaps, is less annoying.
It is thus that a tax upon the necessaries of life operates exactly in the same manner as a direct tax upon the wages of labour.
To him belongs the credit of suggesting the proposition of raising a revenue by a direct tax upon the colonies.
Parliament had no constitutional right to levy a direct tax of any kind on America.
Bibb himself disrelished a direct tax, but could not deny its indispensable necessity.
The House then went into a Committee of the Whole on the bill for amending the act for laying and collecting a direct tax.
He must pay a direct tax supposedly proportioned to the size and yield of his farm.