[A federal income tax would be an invitation to D.C.] to invade its territory, to oust its jurisdiction and to establish a Federal dominion [in Virginia]. A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business. The eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house.
Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, Richard E. Byrd, urges his colleagues to vote against overturning the ruling. Exact date not provided. From The Great Tax Wars, p. 262. 1911.
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