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What 250 Years of Taxes Can Teach Us About Agency

What 250 Years of Taxes Can Teach Us About Agency

Every Fourth of July, Americans tell themselves a familiar story: Our country was born in a tax revolt. The Boston Tea Party, “no taxation without representation,” and patriots dumping crates into the harbor, all add up to a tidy origin story in which our forebears rose up because they were taxed too much.