 | Francis Bowen - 1870 - 512 páginas
...laid down which will not be found to admit many exceptions and limitations. Adam Smith's first canon is, " The subjects of every state ought to contribute...government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 406 páginas
...notions, which were abhorrent to his sober and sagacious mind. His four maxims are well known.1421 " I. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 516 páginas
...cannot be better commenced than by quoting them.' 'i. The subjects of every state ought to contribute to the support of the government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities: that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under... | |
 | James M. Buchanan, Richard A. Musgrave - 1999 - 294 páginas
...As Smith put it, individuals should contribute "in proportion to their respective abilities; that is in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state" (Smith [1776], 1937, 777). He thus offered an intriguing formulation that may be read as combining... | |
 | 2000 - 224 páginas
...maxims of taxation which have since been associated with his name. The maxim of equality enjoins that the " subjects of every state ought to contribute...government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under... | |
 | Cheng-chung Lai - 2000 - 486 páginas
...(3) convenience of payment; and (4) economy in collection. Under the heading of equality, he argues: "The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under... | |
 | John Kenneth Galbraith - 2001 - 329 páginas
...in 1776. They still are, but these things are fairly well accepted now. Smith's fourth canon, that the "subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2002 - 386 páginas
...proportion for the maintenance of it."16 Similarly, Adam Smith writes in The Wealth of Nations that "[t]he subjects of every state ought to contribute...government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under... | |
 | Simon R. James - 2002 - 456 páginas
...particular taxes, it is necessary to premise the four following maxims with regard to taxes in general. I. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under... | |
 | Jack Rabin - 2001 - 824 páginas
...economist Adam Smith enumerated four principles by which to evaluate a revenue system (Papke 1993). The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion... | |
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