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The wholesale import price of tea, for example, may be 1_s._ a pound, and upon this there is 6_d._ duty. But immediately as it passes from the importer to the dealer, and from the dealer to the retailer, the whole price, duty paid, is charged first with ten, and then with thirty per cent. to meet expenses and profits of trade, whereby the retail price is increased probably from 2_s._ to 3_s._ 6_d._ or 4_s._ per lb. This trading, therefore, constitutes so much extra tax, and it is a tax which the working classes pay to the middle and higher classes, through whose hands such articles pass.