...most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as to take out, and to keep out, of the pockets of the...and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State. With respect to taxes on rent, it is obvious that the share of the rent of land, which...

...or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation." 2ndly. " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take...and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State." Let our miserable system be tried by this just and humane tost, and it will be found...

...and the Camp insolent and seditious.— DAVENAST'S POLITICAL AND CUMMEBCIAI, WORES, vol. iii. page 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pocketi of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the...

...establishments. 3. Taxation should be so contrived as, in the words of Adam Smith, ' to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the Treasury of the State.' 4. Taxation ought not to be so devised as to render its payment optional ;...

...times that amount. 'Every tax,' says Adam Smith, 'ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.' ' No,' says the Right Honourable the Chancellor...

...greater ease and more extended co-operation. Indirect taxes are said to be opposed to the principle that every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take...and above what it brings into the public treasury. Doubtless the trader and dealer must charge interest and profit not only on the price of the article...

...manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it, &c" Fourth. — 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...

...And hence they should be contrived, as Smith has stated in his fourth maxim, so as to take out, and keep out, of the pockets of the people as little as possible above what they bring into the public treasury. Sully states, in his Memoirs, that the expense of collecting...

...convenient for the contributor to pay it. 4. Every tas ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as...and above what it brings into the ' public treasury of the state." The taxes of most of the nations of Europe prior to the present century were so levied...

...time, and in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. 4. 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...