For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of CivilizationMadison Books, 1999 - 541 páginas The 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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... assessed against the metics and other foreign- ers . Since it was a despised direct tax , which was especially ... assessments , which were respected and honored . The famous biographer of antiquity , Plutarch , gives this ac- count of ...
... assessed against the metics and other foreign- ers . Since it was a despised direct tax , which was especially ... assessments , which were respected and honored . The famous biographer of antiquity , Plutarch , gives this ac- count of ...
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... assessed at ten times their actual value . Other items may have been assessed at two or four times their actual value . Consequently , the low rate of one- tenth of 1 percent was deceptive . For the rich the tax could run as high as 1 ...
... assessed at ten times their actual value . Other items may have been assessed at two or four times their actual value . Consequently , the low rate of one- tenth of 1 percent was deceptive . For the rich the tax could run as high as 1 ...
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... assessed taxes . " The real devil , as the British were soon to discover , was the income tax alternative contained in this tax legislation . rise up as one man against it . into everyday. WE ARE THE ASSESSED TAXES . DARING ROBBERY OF AN ...
... assessed taxes . " The real devil , as the British were soon to discover , was the income tax alternative contained in this tax legislation . rise up as one man against it . into everyday. WE ARE THE ASSESSED TAXES . DARING ROBBERY OF AN ...
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Part I | 1 |
From Hanukkahs Glory to Goliaths | 35 |
The Mandate of Heaven | 45 |
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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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