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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... nations has always had a tax factor , and this we will see time and again throughout history . Human rights have suffered even more than nations — whatever the tax man wants the tax man gets , in- cluding our liberty , should he so ...
... nations has always had a tax factor , and this we will see time and again throughout history . Human rights have suffered even more than nations — whatever the tax man wants the tax man gets , in- cluding our liberty , should he so ...
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... nation . What we call dumb taxation the Romans called " outrageous burdens . " John Adams used the term “ ruinous ... nations , revolts and revolutions , liberty and slavery , and most of all , war — taxes have played an important role ...
... nation . What we call dumb taxation the Romans called " outrageous burdens . " John Adams used the term “ ruinous ... nations , revolts and revolutions , liberty and slavery , and most of all , war — taxes have played an important role ...
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... nations and brought much good to their inhabitants . In the ancient world , the right kind of taxes produced the magnificence of Greece and were at the heart of Rome's greatness and even Caesar's success and popularity . Taxation played ...
... nations and brought much good to their inhabitants . In the ancient world , the right kind of taxes produced the magnificence of Greece and were at the heart of Rome's greatness and even Caesar's success and popularity . Taxation played ...
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... nations . A Hungarian cardinal lived for years in the U.S. embassy in Budapest , enjoying a kind of asylia guaranteed to all embassies under international law . Foreign na- tions that conquered and ruled over Egypt for a thousand years ...
... nations . A Hungarian cardinal lived for years in the U.S. embassy in Budapest , enjoying a kind of asylia guaranteed to all embassies under international law . Foreign na- tions that conquered and ruled over Egypt for a thousand years ...
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... nation . It was a capitulation on the part of government to the rebels and the priests . The great beneficiaries of this proclamation were the priests . At a sol- emn assembly in Memphis , on the lower Nile , they decreed that an hon ...
... nation . It was a capitulation on the part of government to the rebels and the priests . The great beneficiaries of this proclamation were the priests . At a sol- emn assembly in Memphis , on the lower Nile , they decreed that an hon ...
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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