The Rights of Man footnote 35
The average of taxes in America, under the new or representative system of government, including the interest of the debt contracted in the war, and taking the population at four millions of souls, which it now amounts to, and it is daily increasing, is five shillings per head, men, women, and children. The difference, therefore, between the two governments is as under:
EnglandAmerica £ s. d.£ s. d.For a family of five persons14 17 61 5 0For a family of six persons17 17 01 10 0For a family of seven persons20 16 61 15 0
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