This was before Income Tax, now what is ours is theirs!

[It is an] essential, unalterable right in nature, engrafted into the British constitution as a fundamental law, and ever held sacred and irrevocable by the subjects within the realm, that what a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

— Samuel Adams, The Massachusetts Circular Letter [February 11, 1768