For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of CivilizationMadison Books, 27/12/1992 - 318 páginas A fascinating history... —Kirkus Reviews ...an acidly witty guide. —Wall Street Journal |
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... Jews : On the Road to the Final Solution 149 16. Medieval England : How Englishmen Purchased Liberty with Taxes 159 Part IV Russia , Switzerland , Spain , and Germany 167 17. Russia : The Tax Road to Serfdom and the Soviets 169 18. The ...
... Jews : On the Road to the Final Solution 149 16. Medieval England : How Englishmen Purchased Liberty with Taxes 159 Part IV Russia , Switzerland , Spain , and Germany 167 17. Russia : The Tax Road to Serfdom and the Soviets 169 18. The ...
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... Jews battled a form of tax terrorism that makes the Islamic extremists look benign . From the ancients there is much we can learn , especially in the matter of human rights . Liberty came from the Greeks who believed that tyr- anny was ...
... Jews battled a form of tax terrorism that makes the Islamic extremists look benign . From the ancients there is much we can learn , especially in the matter of human rights . Liberty came from the Greeks who believed that tyr- anny was ...
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... Jews at that time were under Egyptian suzerainty , and we gain an echo of the feeling of the Jewish people under Egyptian colonial taxation with the ever - present informers . The spies of the pha- raoh were everywhere , we are told ...
... Jews at that time were under Egyptian suzerainty , and we gain an echo of the feeling of the Jewish people under Egyptian colonial taxation with the ever - present informers . The spies of the pha- raoh were everywhere , we are told ...
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... Jewish people , urging them to be obedient to Rome's tax demands by appealing to the example of Egypt : What occasion is there for showing you the power of the Romans over remote countries , when it is so easy to learn it from Egypt ...
... Jewish people , urging them to be obedient to Rome's tax demands by appealing to the example of Egypt : What occasion is there for showing you the power of the Romans over remote countries , when it is so easy to learn it from Egypt ...
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... Jews The Jews developed the only pre - Christian culture that has survived to our day . Jewish history goes back five thousand years . By compari- son , the history of the English - speaking people can be traced through , at most , two ...
... Jews The Jews developed the only pre - Christian culture that has survived to our day . Jewish history goes back five thousand years . By compari- son , the history of the English - speaking people can be traced through , at most , two ...
Índice
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75 | |
The Middle Ages | 129 |
Russia Switzerland Spain and Germany | 167 |
The Ancien Régime | 217 |
After Magna Carta | 239 |
The Rocky Road of Early American Taxation | 297 |
The Monster that Laid the Golden Egg | 345 |
The Foursquare | 481 |
Notes | 485 |
Selected Bibliography | 509 |
Illustration Credits | 521 |
Index | 523 |
About the Author | 541 |
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