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... indirect , taxation , by nearly every class of society . Our governing classes encourage this - first , because it saves , or they think it saves , their own pockets ; and , secondly , and mainly , because it gives " I sent the thor i ...
... indirect , taxation , by nearly every class of society . Our governing classes encourage this - first , because it saves , or they think it saves , their own pockets ; and , secondly , and mainly , because it gives " I sent the thor i ...
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... Indirect Taxes , -has ever since steadily pursued that object through good report , and bad report , and has earned the well merited praise of Mr. Cobden , in the following memo- rable words , spoken by him , in answer to the Address ...
... Indirect Taxes , -has ever since steadily pursued that object through good report , and bad report , and has earned the well merited praise of Mr. Cobden , in the following memo- rable words , spoken by him , in answer to the Address ...
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... Indirect Taxes . But this destroys Adam Smith's former proposition , as will be shown in these pages , in the perusal of which this is especially to be remembered . It may then be seen that , no injury is done to the State , or to indi ...
... Indirect Taxes . But this destroys Adam Smith's former proposition , as will be shown in these pages , in the perusal of which this is especially to be remembered . It may then be seen that , no injury is done to the State , or to indi ...
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... Indirect Loss . 1. ACTUAL COST . According to the Government Accounts of Public In- come and Expenditure for the Financial Year , ended 31st March 1861 , the net Taxes paid into the Exchequer ( ex- clusive of Post Office , Crown Lands ...
... Indirect Loss . 1. ACTUAL COST . According to the Government Accounts of Public In- come and Expenditure for the Financial Year , ended 31st March 1861 , the net Taxes paid into the Exchequer ( ex- clusive of Post Office , Crown Lands ...
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... INDIRECT LOSS . As there can be no certain data for Estimates under this head , it is needless to say that , the following Esti- mates must be uncertain . But the object is not so much to show the exact amount of loss from the present ...
... INDIRECT LOSS . As there can be no certain data for Estimates under this head , it is needless to say that , the following Esti- mates must be uncertain . But the object is not so much to show the exact amount of loss from the present ...
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Page 574 - The subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State.
Page 574 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. ... (4) Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 2 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Page 527 - They sup in our cup. They dip in our dish. They sit by our fire. We find them in the dye-fat, wash-bowl, and powdering tub. They share with the butler in his box. They have marked and sealed us from head to foot.
Page 234 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 213 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 518 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Page 503 - Swarms of new-born flies are trying their pinions in the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their gratuitous activity, their continual change of place without use or purpose, testify their joy, and the exultation which they feel in their lately discovered faculties.
Page 186 - Enter ye in at the strait gate ; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it.
Page 512 - I have been young, and now am old : and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.