| Van Buren Denslow - 1888 - 854 Seiten
...worthless, and money is constantly necessary. Dr. Smith's fourth rule is : "-J. Every tax ought to be eo contrived as both to take out and keep out of the...it brings into the public treasury of the state." This rule in practice contradicts the second rule. For the second rule assumes there are many taxes,... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - 1888 - 630 Seiten
...for the contributor to pay it. " IV. Every tax ought to be so contrived as lxith to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as...it brings into the public treasury of the state." towards the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities;... | |
| 1921 - 1138 Seiten
...for the contributor to pay it ... (4) 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...it brings into the public treasury of the state." According to these prin ciples, the general property tax does not meet all the require ments of a good... | |
| Virginia Bar Association, Virginia State Bar Association - 1900 - 422 Seiten
...for the contributor to pay it." 4. "Every tax ought to be so contributed as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as...it brings into the public treasury of the State." MAXIM OF MONTESQUIEU : " The public revenues ought to be measured not by the people's abilities to... | |
| United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations - 1974 - 104 Seiten
...Every tax (or other source of governmental revenue) ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as...what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings... | |
| National Tax Association - 1918 - 456 Seiten
...violate Adam Smith's fourth maxim that ' ' 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...it brings into the public treasury of the state." I believe that the people of Louisiana will find in time that it will be far better to select their... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget - 1982 - 812 Seiten
...tax ought to b* contrived aa both to take out and keep out of the pocketa of the people aa little aa possible, over and above what It brings Into the public Treasury of the stateAdam Smith. Wealth of Hatlona; pp. 351-52. This guideline, known as the efficiency axiom, points... | |
| 1876 - 1102 Seiten
...economy of the tax, for every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out, and keep out, of tho pockets of the people as little as possible, over...what it brings into the public treasury of the State, Nothing is more important to the satisfactory working of any tax than that the collection may not require... | |
| Martin Feldstein, A.J. Auerbach - 1985 - 483 Seiten
...Smith, in his fourth maxim, counsels that "every tax ought to be so contrived as to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as...what it brings into the public treasury of the state" [Smith (1776, vol. II, p. 311)]. Reference is to the cost of tax administration, obstruction to industry,... | |
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