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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... benefit much from the rivalry between the priests and the pharaoh's scribes . Once on tax - immune temple lands , workers did not pay a poll tax , nor farmers a harvest tax , but temple religious offerings were just as bad . Tax ...
... benefit much from the rivalry between the priests and the pharaoh's scribes . Once on tax - immune temple lands , workers did not pay a poll tax , nor farmers a harvest tax , but temple religious offerings were just as bad . Tax ...
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... benefits they had been given . With the right of asylia , which they had never lost , the temples now had a bright and prosperous future . The main stumbling block was the lawlessness of the king's tax men . Having the law on your side ...
... benefits they had been given . With the right of asylia , which they had never lost , the temples now had a bright and prosperous future . The main stumbling block was the lawlessness of the king's tax men . Having the law on your side ...
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... benefit of Augustus . He wisely kept Egypt for himself , and even prohibited any Roman sena- tors from visiting Egypt without his express permission.5 He must have made some dramatic changes in the tax system , be- cause civil disorder ...
... benefit of Augustus . He wisely kept Egypt for himself , and even prohibited any Roman sena- tors from visiting Egypt without his express permission.5 He must have made some dramatic changes in the tax system , be- cause civil disorder ...
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... benefit of the above tax policy would bring peace at home and you would have no adversary in the whole wide world . Such a ruler would be Heaven's Officer , and never fail to be a real king . Mencius wrote for the Chinese the doctrine ...
... benefit of the above tax policy would bring peace at home and you would have no adversary in the whole wide world . Such a ruler would be Heaven's Officer , and never fail to be a real king . Mencius wrote for the Chinese the doctrine ...
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... benefit . Trust them , leave them alone . " Governing a large country is like frying a small fish ; you spoil it with too much poking . " Let us leave China for a contemporary tax story in ancient Greece , and see if the wisdom of the ...
... benefit . Trust them , leave them alone . " Governing a large country is like frying a small fish ; you spoil it with too much poking . " Let us leave China for a contemporary tax story in ancient Greece , and see if the wisdom of the ...
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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