 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Finance - 1906 - 698 pages
...longer, than they wish it to do. The ordinary expense of the greater part of modern governments in time of peace being equal or nearly equal to their ordinary...increase their revenue in proportion to the increase of their expense. They are unwilling, for fear of offending the people, who, by so great and so sudden... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Finance - 1906 - 700 pages
...longer, than they wish it to do. The ordinary expense of the greater part of modern governments in time of peace being equal or nearly equal to their ordinary...increase their revenue in proportion to the increase of their expense. They are unwilling, for fear of offending the people, who, by so great and so sudden... | |
 | Mario Kamenetzky - Business & Economics - 1999 - 340 pages
...Adam Smith's shrewd perception: The ordinary expence of the greater part of modern governments in time of peace being equal or nearly equal to their ordinary...increase their revenue in proportion to the increase of their expence. They are unwilling, for fear of offending the people, who by so great and so sudden... | |
 | Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...longer, than they wish it to do. The ordinary expense of the greater part of modern governments, in time of peace, being equal, or nearly equal, to their ordinary...increase their revenue in proportion to the increase of their expense. They are unwilling, for fear of offending the people, who, by so great and so sudden... | |
 | 1890 - 340 pages
...Nations. Book v, chap. iii. 1776 JH E ordinary expense of the greater part of modern governments, in time of peace, being equal, or nearly equal, to their ordinary...increase their revenue in proportion to the increase of their expense. They are unwilling, for fear of offending the people, who, by so great and so sudden... | |
 | American essays - 1905 - 936 pages
...Wealth of Nations. He says: "The ordinary expense of the greater part of modern governments in time of peace being equal or nearly equal to their ordinary...increase their revenue in proportion to the increase of their expense. They are unwilling, for fear of offending the people, who, by so great and so sudden... | |
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They are unwilling, for fear of offending the people, who, by so great and so sudden an increase of taxes, would soon be disgusted with the war ; and they are unable, from not well knowing what taxes would be sufficient to produce the revenue wanted. 
