 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - Saving and investment - 1977 - 130 pages
...commandeering the fruits of our labor. As early as 1753 Benjamin Franklin suggested a standard. He wrote: "It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth of their time, to he employed in its service." The fundamental principle laid down by our founding... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - American literature - 1903 - 1042 pages
...We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as mach by our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us byallowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and somsthing may be done for us ;... | |
 | William B. Dillingham - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 464 pages
...that they impose upon themselves. "We are taxed," he tells them, "twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much...cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement." 47 The point that he wishes to make is that this form of self-taxation is going on without most of... | |
 | James L. Huston - History - 1999 - 340 pages
...(Philadelphia, 1860), 58. before still applied: "We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly."51 Southerners readily acceded to the necessity of cultivating the middle-class virtues of thrift,... | |
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The taxes are indeed very heavy ; and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharg-e them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. — We are taxed twice as much by our idleness,... 
