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... taxation to all , it would , as far as the result is concerned , be unimportant whether it were elected by millions or by hundreds . It is sufficiently manifest that it does not do so ; and though the British Legislature is perhaps as ...
... taxation to all , it would , as far as the result is concerned , be unimportant whether it were elected by millions or by hundreds . It is sufficiently manifest that it does not do so ; and though the British Legislature is perhaps as ...
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... taxation were hardly understood by any man . When the public knows nothing of political economy , it is almost certain to ascribe a failing income to the maladministration of Government . } B The manufacturing districts were suffering ...
... taxation were hardly understood by any man . When the public knows nothing of political economy , it is almost certain to ascribe a failing income to the maladministration of Government . } B The manufacturing districts were suffering ...
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... taxation to which it was liable ( being as he said 28. 8d . in the pound ) , it would be unfair to remove protection , and that there ought to be previously to , or simultaneously with the change , a new law of parochial settlement , a ...
... taxation to which it was liable ( being as he said 28. 8d . in the pound ) , it would be unfair to remove protection , and that there ought to be previously to , or simultaneously with the change , a new law of parochial settlement , a ...
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... taxation now mainly falls . 10. Because a general reduction of prices , conse- quent on a reduction in the price of corn , will tend unduly to raise the monied interest at the expense of all others , and so aggravate the pressure of the ...
... taxation now mainly falls . 10. Because a general reduction of prices , conse- quent on a reduction in the price of corn , will tend unduly to raise the monied interest at the expense of all others , and so aggravate the pressure of the ...
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... taxation for imperial purposes lies more lightly on land than it does in ours . In common with every other source of income , land is liable to a variable income tax . But its further con- tribution to the revenue is limited to the ...
... taxation for imperial purposes lies more lightly on land than it does in ours . In common with every other source of income , land is liable to a variable income tax . But its further con- tribution to the revenue is limited to the ...
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