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"The power to tax involves the power to destroy," wrote Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
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Last month,the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its centenary with all the internal fanfare you would expect. The party, which has ruled China since 1949, touted the Twitter congratulations of world leaders from Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Serbia, and elsewhere lauding its record of supposed social, cultural, economic, and environmental progress.
China's authoritarian President Xi Jinping spewed gory rhetoric on Thursday while left-wing news org CNN dubbed the dictator "the real star" of the Chinese Communist Party's centennial celebration.
