Political EconomyAmerican Book Company, 1886 - 134 Seiten |
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... Railway tunnel a little more fresh air would be very valuable . On the other hand diamonds , though much valued , are used for few purposes ; they make beautiful ornaments and they serve to cut glass or to bore rocks . Their high value ...
... Railway tunnel a little more fresh air would be very valuable . On the other hand diamonds , though much valued , are used for few purposes ; they make beautiful ornaments and they serve to cut glass or to bore rocks . Their high value ...
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... railway shares or government funds , those who receive the money put it to some other profitable use . If the rich man actually hoards up his money in the form of gold or silver , he gets no advantage from it , but he creates so much ...
... railway shares or government funds , those who receive the money put it to some other profitable use . If the rich man actually hoards up his money in the form of gold or silver , he gets no advantage from it , but he creates so much ...
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... railways . A fancy ball creates amusement at the time , but it costs a great deal of money , especially to the guests who buy expensive costumes . When it is over there is no permanent result , and no one is much the better for it . The ...
... railways . A fancy ball creates amusement at the time , but it costs a great deal of money , especially to the guests who buy expensive costumes . When it is over there is no permanent result , and no one is much the better for it . The ...
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... railway shares , we should have so many railways that they could not be all used , and they would become rather a nuisance than a benefit . Similarly , there could be no good in building docks unless there were ships to load in them ...
... railway shares , we should have so many railways that they could not be all used , and they would become rather a nuisance than a benefit . Similarly , there could be no good in building docks unless there were ships to load in them ...
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... railways have produced whole series of employments which did not exist fifty years ago . These trades arise without any Act of Parliament to make them or allow them . There is no law to say how many trades there shall be , nor how many ...
... railways have produced whole series of employments which did not exist fifty years ago . These trades arise without any Act of Parliament to make them or allow them . There is no law to say how many trades there shall be , nor how many ...
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Seite 59 - ... first, the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employments themselves; secondly, the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning them; thirdly, the constancy or inconstancy of employment in them; fourthly, the small or great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them.
Seite 129 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Seite 130 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Seite 34 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Seite 130 - 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.
Seite 128 - The subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State .... In the observation or neglect of this maxim, consists what is called the equality 'or inequality of taxation.
Seite 58 - Secondly, the wages of labour vary with the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning the business. When any expensive machine is erected, the extraordinary work to be performed by it before it is worn out, it must be expected, will replace the capital laid out upon it, with at least the ordinary profits.