We're a small town here in Upper Bucks. If (council) can keep the taxation and services at a reasonable level I think they're doing a good job.

Taxation without representation is tyranny

The cultivation of a single staple grain was, in itself, an important step in legibility and hence, appropriation. Monoculture fosters uniformity at many different levels. . .A society shaped powerfully by monoculture was easier to monitor, assess, and tax than one shaped by agricultural diversity.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

It's entirely consistent with taxation with representation.

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.