| Robert John Thornton - 1799 - 852 páginas
...people as little as poffible, tver and above what It I/tings into the public treafitry of the Jiate. — A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets...people a great deal more than it brings into the public treafury, in the four following ways. — FIRST, the levying of it may require a great number of officers,... | |
| 1831 - 652 páginas
...of L.7,312 of net revenue. Most certainly no tax ever accorded less with the sound maxim of taking out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what comes into the public treasury. The influence of the duties in adding to the price of all the principal... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 páginas
...people as little as poffible, over and above what it brings into the public treafury of the ftate. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets...people a great deal more than it brings into the public treafury, in the four following ways. Firft, the levying of it may require a great number of officers,... | |
| 1815 - 698 páginas
...with peculiar emphasis, that it is " so contrived, as both to take out and keep out of the "Dockets of the people as lit.tle as possible over and above...it brings into the Public Treasury of the State." P. 45. The author then proceeds to state some modifications of the property-tax, which, in his opinion,... | |
| John Wade - 1820 - 496 páginas
...pockets of the people. Adam Smith says, " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as...it brings into the public treasury of the state." Further on, he continues, " All nations Lottery System. Jiave endeavoured, to the best of their judgment,... | |
| David Ricardo - 1821 - 560 páginas
...be convenient for the contributor to pay it. 4. " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as...it brings into the public treasury of the State." An equal land-tax, imposed indiscriminately and without any regard to the distinction of its quality,... | |
| 1833 - 554 páginas
...It is an admitted axiom in finance that " every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings to the public treasury*." This is not the case with indirect taxation. Take, for instance, the article... | |
| 1823 - 616 páginas
...correcting it in all cases? ' Every tax ought, ' says Dr Smith, ' to be so contrived, as to ' take out, and keep out, of the pockets of the people, as little...possible over and above what it brings into the public trea239 ' sury of the state. ' But the duty in question is in direct opposition to this maxim. It injures... | |
| 1825 - 424 páginas
...convenient for the contributor to pay it. 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived, as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the treasuiy of the state. Mr. M'Culloch said, every system of taxation is good or bad, in proportion as... | |
| 1826 - 1138 páginas
...which they respectively enjoy under its protection. 2. Every tax ought to be so contrived, as to take out of the pockets of the people as little as possible,...what it brings into the public treasury of the state. 3. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of... | |
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