 | American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pages
...convenient for the contributor to pay it. 4. Every tas 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." The taxes of most of the nations of Europe prior to the present century were so levied as to... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 874 pages
...time, and in the manner, in which it is most 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... | |
 | Charles Tennant - England - 1862 - 746 pages
...exception of the Land Tax, which is unequally, and, therefore, unjustly assessed. Adam Smith said : — " 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... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Debts, Public - 1863 - 548 pages
...selection. Every tax should, as Smith has stated in his fourth maxim, be contrived so as to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible above what it puts into the public treasury. The nett produce of a tax, or the sum which it yields... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1863 - 438 pages
...shirked or repudiated by any honest man any more than any other debt. (2.) That taxation should take and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible beyond what it yields to the public exchequer. (3.) That the public revenue should be raised from the... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - Economics - 1864 - 106 pages
...pleases, it must be his own fault if he ever suffers any considerable inconvenience from such taxes. 4. " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take...and above what it brings into the public treasury. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 pages
...laid it down as an admitted axiom 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 into the Treasury of the State." Now, the effect of our system is, to reduce the purchasing power of the Wages... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1864 - 1224 pages
...revenue which he enjoyed under its protection, and that every tax ought to be so contrived as to take out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above the amount which it brought into the national treasury. As Mr. Stuart Mill said, those were the orthodox... | |
 | Charles Tennant - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 486 pages
...temptation to commit the crime." Nearly a century ago, Adam Smith laid. it down as an admitted axiom 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 into the... | |
 | Amasa Walker - Business & Economics - 1866 - 554 pages
...cousideraeration, will readily be admitted as proper. IV. " Every tax ought to be so contrived as to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the treasury of the state." Although the soundness of this principle would seem indisputable, and will... | |
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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. 
