 To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the...  American Bee Journal - Page 3401892Full view - About this book
 | Political science - 1894 - 700 pages
...upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation." Nevertheless one who should be trustworthy defends this robbery as righteous, at the dawn of the twentieth... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - Science - 1897 - 902 pages
...of the citizen, and with the other bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of the law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." And... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - Corporation law - 1895 - 1100 pages
...upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. A 'tax' says Webster's... | |
 | District of Columbia. Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 640 pages
...upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation ; it is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. . . . We have... | |
 | Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry - Constitutional history - 1895 - 268 pages
...upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." In this authoritative interpretation... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1140 pages
...on favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called 'taxation.' This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative form." Loan Ass'n v. Topeka, 20 Wall. 055.... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 710 pages
...the property of another citizen, destroyed, injured or stolen by rioters, incendiaries or thieves, is none the less robbery, because it is done under the forms of law. Savings Association v. Topeka, 87 US 655; Book 22, Co. Op. Ed. 461; Lowell v. Boston, 111 Mass. 472.... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance - 1896 - 764 pages
...upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build np private fortunes, ia none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation: it is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. * * * We have... | |
 | Science - 1897 - 896 pages
...the citizen, and with the other 'bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of the law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." And... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 932 pages
...upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law, and is called ' taxation.' This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." [20 Wall. 663, 664, 22 L. ed. 461].... | |
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