For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of CivilizationThe very word taxes sends shivers up spines. Yet very few realize the tremendous impact that taxation has had on civilization. Charles Adams changes that in this newly revised and enlarged edition of his fascinating history. Taxation, says Adams, has been a catalyst of history, a powerful influence on and sometimes the direct cause of many of the famous events that have marched across the world's stage as empires collided and battled for the right to tax the loser. For Good and Evil is the first book to examine how taxation has been a key factor in world events. Like the Rosetta Stone - itself a tax document - the book sheds fresh light onto much of history. |
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From that time forth the publicani were con- stantly pressuring the Senate to renege on its treaty commitments . Cic- ero condemned the practice with these words to the Senate : " What a disgrace to our government !
From that time forth the publicani were con- stantly pressuring the Senate to renege on its treaty commitments . Cic- ero condemned the practice with these words to the Senate : " What a disgrace to our government !
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Augustus may have been the most brilliant tax strategist of all time . Augustus destroyed the power of the Roman Republic by redirecting the cash flow of the tax money . In the past it had gone to the Senate ; in the future it would go ...
Augustus may have been the most brilliant tax strategist of all time . Augustus destroyed the power of the Roman Republic by redirecting the cash flow of the tax money . In the past it had gone to the Senate ; in the future it would go ...
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The riddle of why the Senate declined and how the Republic died is solved by the answer to the question of who controlled the tax money . The Senate's revenue wells dried up in the civil war . When the war ended , it was the First ...
The riddle of why the Senate declined and how the Republic died is solved by the answer to the question of who controlled the tax money . The Senate's revenue wells dried up in the civil war . When the war ended , it was the First ...
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Part I | 1 |
From Hanukkahs Glory to Goliaths | 35 |
The Mandate of Heaven | 45 |
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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing ... Jeremy Rifkin Pré-visualização indisponível - 2004 |
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| Título | For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization |
| Autor | Charles Adams |
| Edição | 2, ilustrada |
| Editora | Madison Books, 1999 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 17 Ago 2007 |
| ISBN | 1568331231, 9781568331232 |
| Número de páginas | 541 páginas |
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