Of all the taxes I ever could think of, there is not one more general nor one less felt, than that of the duty upon salt. The duty upon salt is a tax that every man in the nation contributes to according to his circumstances and condition in life... Historical Register - Page 2901732Full view - About this book
| Justin McCarthy - 1884 - 440 pages
...there is not one more general, nor one less felt, than that of the duty upon salt.' He described it as a ' tax that every man in the nation contributes to according to his circumstances and condition in life.' This is exactly what every man does not do. The family of the... | |
| Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - Great Britain - 1884 - 434 pages
...there is not one more general, nor one less felt, than that of the duty upon salt.' He described it as a ' tax that every man in the nation contributes to according to his circumstances and condition in life.' This is exactly what every man does not do. The family of the... | |
| Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - Great Britain - 1884 - 442 pages
...there is not one more general, nor one less felt, than that of the duty upon salt.' He described it as a ' tax that every man in the nation contributes to according to his circumstances and condition in life.' This is exactly what every man does not do. The family of the... | |
| William Kennedy - Taxation - 1913 - 266 pages
...distributed and the substitution he proposed was therefore the substitution of a just for an unjust tax. ' The duty upon salt is a tax that every man in the nation contributes to according to his circumstances and condition in life ; every subject contributes something ; if he be a poor man he... | |
| Alfred Edward Bland, Philip Anthony Brown, Richard Henry Tawney - Business & Economics - 1914 - 776 pages
...man, and is the more grievous, in that it is unjust ; for where the benefit is mutual, the expense ought to be in common. Of all the taxes I ever could think of, there is not one more general nor one less felt, than that of the duty upon salt. The duty upon salt is a tax that every man in the nation... | |
| Alfred Edward Bland, Philip Anthony Brown, Richard Henry Tawney - Great Britain - 1915 - 764 pages
...is unjust ; for where the benefit is mutual, the expense ought to be in common. Of all the ti-.xes I ever could think of, there is not one more general nor one less felt, than that of the duty upon salt. The duty upon salt is a tax that every man in the nation... | |
| Alfred Edward Bland, Philip Anthony Brown, Richard Henry Tawney - Great Britain - 1919 - 762 pages
...man, and is the more grievous, in that it is unjust ; for where the benefit is mutual, the expense ought to be in common. Of all the taxes I ever could think of, there is not one more general or one less felt, than that of the duty upon salt. The duty pon salt is a tax that every man in the... | |
| W. Kennedy - Business & Economics - 1964 - 222 pages
...distributed and the substitution he proposed was therefore the substitution of a just for an unjust tax. ' The duty upon salt is a tax that every man in the nation contributes to according to his circumstances and condition in life ; every subject contributes something ; if he be a poor man he... | |
| William J. Ashworth - Business & Economics - 2003 - 420 pages
...tax in 1732 was carefully guided in through a set of familiar arguments. Walpole resolutely declared: 'The duty upon salt is a tax that every man in the nation contributes to according to his circumstances and condition in life; every subject contributes something; if he be a poor man he contributes... | |
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