| Financial Reform Association (Liverpool, England) - 1851 - 600 páginas
...maxims on axation by Dr. Adam Smith :— " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as...ways : — " First, the levying of it may require a great number of officers, whose salaries may eat up the greater part of the produce of the tax, and... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 500 páginas
...convenient for the contributor to pay it. ' 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as...above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.'H § 10 All political maxims, it will be observed, are general in their effect, not less than... | |
| Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1880 - 550 páginas
...ends. But no more. Therefore, with Adam Smith, " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it actually brings into the treasury of the state." The machinery for tax levy should be as simple as... | |
| sir robert peel bart - 1853 - 870 páginas
...convenient for the contributor to pay it. Fourthly, every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out, and to keep out of the pockets of the people...it brings into the public treasury of the state." From these maxims a recent writer has drawn this conclusion, that there is not one of those maxims... | |
| 1853 - 498 páginas
...convenient for the contributor to pay it." IV. " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as...it brings into the public treasury of the state." In discussing the merits of particular taxes we shall have to consider with some minuteness the application... | |
| Robert Peel - 1853 - 874 páginas
...every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out, and to keep out of the pockets of the [*ople as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state." From these maxims a recent writer has drawn this conclusion, that there is not one of those maxims... | |
| 1855 - 514 páginas
...convenient for the contributor to pay it. " 4 — Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as...above what it brings into the public treasury of the state."f From these principles we can at once deduce that the most simple and natural tax, conforming... | |
| Statistical and social inquiry society of Ireland - 1856 - 428 páginas
...convenient for the contributor to pay it. " 4 — Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as...above what it brings into the public treasury of the state."f From these principles we can at once deduce that the most simple and natural tax, conforming... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 páginas
...be convenient for the contributor to pay it. ... " 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as to take out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what goes into the treasury of the state."* Of these maxims, the last three are expressed with sufficient... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1857 - 610 páginas
...considerable inconvenience from such taxes. " 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as...following ways. First, the levying of it may require a great number of officers, whose salaries may eat up the greater part of the produce of the tax, and... | |
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