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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... Taxes for the Infidel 131 14. Medieval Taxation : When Taxpayers Had God on Their Side 143 15. The Jews : On the Road to the Final Solution 149 16. Medieval England : How Englishmen Purchased Liberty with Taxes 159 Part IV Russia ...
... Taxes for the Infidel 131 14. Medieval Taxation : When Taxpayers Had God on Their Side 143 15. The Jews : On the Road to the Final Solution 149 16. Medieval England : How Englishmen Purchased Liberty with Taxes 159 Part IV Russia ...
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... taxation , I would place Charles W. Adams's history of taxation at the absolute top of any reading list on the subject . Fight , Flight , Fraud was entertaining , informative , and full of lessons about why taxes matter . I delight in ...
... taxation , I would place Charles W. Adams's history of taxation at the absolute top of any reading list on the subject . Fight , Flight , Fraud was entertaining , informative , and full of lessons about why taxes matter . I delight in ...
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... taxation , leaving the state without resources to defend itself . Fight , Flight , Fraud is a gold mine for producers of television series . Ten years later , Charles W. Adams has brought forth on this continent a new history of taxation ...
... taxation , leaving the state without resources to defend itself . Fight , Flight , Fraud is a gold mine for producers of television series . Ten years later , Charles W. Adams has brought forth on this continent a new history of taxation ...
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... taxation . Tax reform has heated up substantially since the 1980s , but is there any chance we will rid ourselves of ... taxation in many of the impor- tant events of history caught my attention . When I sought more knowl- edge on the ...
... taxation . Tax reform has heated up substantially since the 1980s , but is there any chance we will rid ourselves of ... taxation in many of the impor- tant events of history caught my attention . When I sought more knowl- edge on the ...
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... taxes have often played throughout the course of civilization , this study makes no claim that taxation will provide us with a new philosophy of history . There have been , espe- cially over the past few centuries , many learned men who ...
... taxes have often played throughout the course of civilization , this study makes no claim that taxation will provide us with a new philosophy of history . There have been , espe- cially over the past few centuries , many learned men who ...
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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