Six Speeches on Financial Reform |
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... Class legislation , which stares out from almost every line of the Statute Book , is displayed in the history of Taxation as plainly as in any other section of history . When a parliament of landholders found they had the power to wring ...
... Class legislation , which stares out from almost every line of the Statute Book , is displayed in the history of Taxation as plainly as in any other section of history . When a parliament of landholders found they had the power to wring ...
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... classes by increasing their income by nearly £ 20,000,000 sterling , which , of course , would have to bear its fair share of taxation , but which it would be well able to bear . The tax on a commodity not only falls upon the consumer ...
... classes by increasing their income by nearly £ 20,000,000 sterling , which , of course , would have to bear its fair share of taxation , but which it would be well able to bear . The tax on a commodity not only falls upon the consumer ...
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... classes knew how much they contributed towards it . It is only when they are under the chloro- form of Indirect Taxation that they can be bled freely without feeling it till they awake from their stupor . Another objection to an ...
... classes knew how much they contributed towards it . It is only when they are under the chloro- form of Indirect Taxation that they can be bled freely without feeling it till they awake from their stupor . Another objection to an ...
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... classes with which we are more familiar than with the working people , drunkenness was ten or twenty times more common than it is at present . If it was possible to make all classes as temperate as those of whom I have just spoken , we ...
... classes with which we are more familiar than with the working people , drunkenness was ten or twenty times more common than it is at present . If it was possible to make all classes as temperate as those of whom I have just spoken , we ...
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... classes with the poorer , in order to elevate their habits and tastes . ” There is another consideration , which is too often lost sight of . No one can help regretting the vast amount of money squandered at gin - palaces by the working ...
... classes with the poorer , in order to elevate their habits and tastes . ” There is another consideration , which is too often lost sight of . No one can help regretting the vast amount of money squandered at gin - palaces by the working ...
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Page 4 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 4 - ... pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride— at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 5 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he...
Page 54 - The certainty of what each individual ought to pay is, in taxation, a matter of so great importance, that a very considerable degree of inequality, it appears, I believe, from the experience of all nations, is not near so great an evil as a very small degree of uncertainty.
Page 4 - ... earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man...
Page 25 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.
Page 3 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 193 - 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.
Page 4 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 105 - It means the abolition of the law of primogeniture, and the limitation of the system of entails and settlements, so that, ' life interests ' may be for the most part got rid of, and a real ownership substituted for them. It means also that it shall be as easy to buy or sell land as to buy or sell a ship, or, at least, as easy as it is in Australia, and in many or in all the States of the American Union.