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levied

Verb

The word is derived from levy

Meaning

of Levy

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Nicolas Chamfort

EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. Samuel Johnson

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. Robert A. Heinlein

III. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. Adam Smith

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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