 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 brings into the public treasury of the state.  The Sewanee Review - Side 4661893Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 588 sider
...and in the manner mon convenient to the contributor. And every tax fhould be fo contrived as to take and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as poifible above what is brought into the public treafury. All private revenue arifing from rent, profit,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 sider
...considerable inconveniency 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 little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1816 - 736 sider
...in one of the most essential qualities of a good tax, for a good tax is that which takes and keeps out of the pockets of the people as little as possible above what it returns into the public treasury. In a former administration, when a penny a bottle duty was laid on... | |
 | John Wade - 1820 - 496 sider
...sum out of the pockets of the people. Adam Smith says, " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state." Further on, he continues, " All... | |
 | 1833 - 554 sider
...equally conclusive. It is an admitted axiom in finance that " every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings to the public treasury*." This is not the case with indirect taxation.... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1821 - 566 sider
...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 little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State." An equal land-tax, imposed indiscriminately... | |
 | 1823 - 616 sider
...and correct it in one case, without correcting it in all cases? ' Every tax ought, ' says Dr Smith, ' to be so contrived, as to ' take out, and keep out,...the pockets of the people, as little ' as possible over and above what it brings into the public trea239 ' sury of the state. ' But the duty in question... | |
 | 1825 - 424 sider
...likely to be 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 possible, over and above what it brings into the treasuiy of the state. Mr. M'Culloch said, every system of taxation... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1826 - 302 sider
...consulted in the excise laws of Great Britain: a system efficient at the expence of intolerable vexation. "4. Every tax ought to be so contrived, as to take...of the pockets of the people, as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury. A tax may take out and keep out of the pockets... | |
 | J. C. Ross - 1827 - 486 sider
...for the contributors to pay it. 4th. Every tax ought to be so constructed, as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. An equal land tax, imposed indiscriminately,... | |
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