The purpose of taxation is to arm society with the means to provide civilization. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”1 But, the Supreme Court, in McCulloch v. Maryland,2 noted, “The power to tax involves the power to destroy.”
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