Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the taxgatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. The Politician's Creed - Seite 97von Robert John Thornton - 1799 - 2 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Adam Smith - 1801 - 448 Seiten
...is otherwife, every perfon fnbjecl to the tax is put more or lefs in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious...uncertainty of taxation encourages the infolence and favors the corruption of an order of men who are naturally unpopular, even where they are neither infolent... | |
| Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 Seiten
...is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 Seiten
...is otherwife, every perfon fubject to the tax is put more or lefs in the power of the taxgatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of Ikch aggravation, fome prefent or perquifite to himfelf. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 668 Seiten
...truly observes,) every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such, aggravation, some present or perquisite, to himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
| Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 Seiten
...is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
| 1876 - 1102 Seiten
...is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present <r perquisite to himself. Arbitrariness of exaction was one of tk abuses... | |
| University magazine - 1845 - 776 Seiten
...otherwise, every person, subject to the tax, is put, more or less, in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, somn present or perquisite for himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
| Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland. Parliamentary Committee - 1845 - 538 Seiten
...every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can cither aggravate the tax .upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. The certainty of what each individual ought... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 588 Seiten
...is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the taxgatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 Seiten
...is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. . . . " 3. Every tax ought to be levied at... | |
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