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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The court reasoned that only the Estates General , an as- sembly of all classes of French society , could authorize the tax reforms the king sought . The court was aware that the Estates would reject the king's reforms since there were ...
The court reasoned that only the Estates General , an as- sembly of all classes of French society , could authorize the tax reforms the king sought . The court was aware that the Estates would reject the king's reforms since there were ...
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The ethics , then , of society's tax policy should develop from two moral maxims : First , it is the duty - the first duty - of every govern- ment to develop a just and sound revenue system . Just in the way taxes are assessed and ...
The ethics , then , of society's tax policy should develop from two moral maxims : First , it is the duty - the first duty - of every govern- ment to develop a just and sound revenue system . Just in the way taxes are assessed and ...
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In Europe , con- tests between commoners and aristocrats were governed by presump- tions in favor of the more noble members of society . Why ? Because the aristocrats had a bigger voice in law making just like the tax man today .
In Europe , con- tests between commoners and aristocrats were governed by presump- tions in favor of the more noble members of society . Why ? Because the aristocrats had a bigger voice in law making just like the tax man today .
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From Hanukkahs Glory to Goliaths | 35 |
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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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