 ... 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 possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets...  The Politician's Creed - Page 99by Robert John Thornton - 1799 - 2 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1801 - 448 pages
...people as little as poflible, over and above what it brings 'into the public treafury of the ftate. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the peopleagreatdeal morethan it brings into the public treafury, in the four following ways. Firft, the... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...people as little as possible, over and above 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 into the public treasury, in the four following ways.... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 520 pages
...people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets...people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury, in the four following ways. First? the levying of it may require a great number of officers,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1819 - 518 pages
...people as little as possible, over and above 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 into }he public treasury, in the four following ways. First, the levying of it may require a great number... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Economics - 1826 - 302 pages
...as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury. A tax may take out and keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury, in the four following ways: "The levying of it may require a great number of officers, whose... | |
 | John Wade - Church and state - 1832 - 730 pages
...people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets...people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury in the four following ways :• — First, the levying of it may require a greater number... | |
 | John Wade - Church and state - 1832 - 730 pages
...or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury in the four following ways : — First, the levying of it may require a greater number of officers, whose salaries may eat up the greater part of the produce of the tax, and... | |
 | Benjamin Sayer - Income tax - 1833 - 502 pages
...People as little as possible " over and above what it brings into the public Treasury of the " State. " A Tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets...People a great deal more than it brings into the public Trea" sury in the four following ways : — " First, The levying of it may require a greater number... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - Business & Economics - 1835 - 334 pages
...people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets...people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury, in the four following ways. First, the levying of it may require a great number of officers,... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Margracia) - Economics - 1835 - 362 pages
...attendant on those effecting raw produce in particular. CHAPTER VIII. EVILS OF INDIRECT TAXATION. " A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets...people, a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury, in four ways : First, the levying of it may require a great number of officers, whose salaries... | |
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