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as
may be required from time to time in the service itself.
Any profit derived
from
service, except when so
the
applied,
constitutes a special tax upon
:
that section of the public
which makes use
of the service, from which the remaining portion of the community is exempt, while a deficit is — equivalent to a taxe upon the whole community for the~ benefit of one portion of it,
vir those who send and re-
ceive
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ceive correspondence through the Post. This is so manifestly fair that tariffs are invariably so arranged as to guard against. such a possibility, with the re sult that the profit may
be
and frequently is considerably
in excess
of the amount re- quired for improvements in
the Postal Service, the balance
going
venue.
to swell the general re
A deduction of 175% from
such revenue as
might be
raised
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