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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... farmers . Tax - farming was an extreme phase of capitalism . A government con- tracting with private citizens to collect taxes is much like hiring a pri- vate army to fight a war . These are extreme delegations of sovereign power ...
... farmers . Tax - farming was an extreme phase of capitalism . A government con- tracting with private citizens to collect taxes is much like hiring a pri- vate army to fight a war . These are extreme delegations of sovereign power ...
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... farmers . In short , the tax - farmers were the Krupps , Rothschilds and du Ponts of the ancient world . The tax - farming innovation of the Ptolemies was ingenious , to say the least , but it was destructive . This middleman insurer ...
... farmers . In short , the tax - farmers were the Krupps , Rothschilds and du Ponts of the ancient world . The tax - farming innovation of the Ptolemies was ingenious , to say the least , but it was destructive . This middleman insurer ...
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... farmer and obtain cash at a discounted rate . These notes were simply the zero - coupon bonds of that day . The credit of tax - farmers was sound . Was this process really any dif- ferent than the money we use today ? Basically , this ...
... farmer and obtain cash at a discounted rate . These notes were simply the zero - coupon bonds of that day . The credit of tax - farmers was sound . Was this process really any dif- ferent than the money we use today ? Basically , this ...
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From Hanukkahs Glory to Goliaths | 35 |
Tyranny and Taxes | 53 |
Part II | 75 |
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