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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... excise , undoubtedly the most hated of all European taxes . In England , liberty was equated with the absence of an excise tax in the same way that the ancient Greeks equated liberty with the absence of poll taxes and land taxes . The ...
... excise , undoubtedly the most hated of all European taxes . In England , liberty was equated with the absence of an excise tax in the same way that the ancient Greeks equated liberty with the absence of poll taxes and land taxes . The ...
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... excise may first appear to border on insan- ity , for the tax does have many virtues . It can be limited to luxuries and thus avoid the poor ; it is easy to collect since only the merchants need be audited . But the English taxpayer did ...
... excise may first appear to border on insan- ity , for the tax does have many virtues . It can be limited to luxuries and thus avoid the poor ; it is easy to collect since only the merchants need be audited . But the English taxpayer did ...
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... excise . Rumors soon spread that the gov- ernment was about to tax food and clothing and introduce the hated Eu- ropean excise in America . The excise may have ranked first among grievances that drove immigrants to America . An ...
... excise . Rumors soon spread that the gov- ernment was about to tax food and clothing and introduce the hated Eu- ropean excise in America . The excise may have ranked first among grievances that drove immigrants to America . An ...
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Part I | 1 |
From Hanukkahs Glory to Goliaths | 35 |
The Mandate of Heaven | 45 |
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