Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain |
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... TION . - History and Progress of Taxation in Britain . -Limited only by the resistance of the people . - Fund- ing System - Its errors . - Pressure of the National Debt on Productive Industry . - Financial mismanage- ment ...
... TION . - History and Progress of Taxation in Britain . -Limited only by the resistance of the people . - Fund- ing System - Its errors . - Pressure of the National Debt on Productive Industry . - Financial mismanage- ment ...
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... tion is the means of producing an equal or greater quantity - as for example , the consumption of seed and husbandry implements by a farmer : no por- tion of the aggregate of wealth is destroyed ; but on the contrary , there is , in ...
... tion is the means of producing an equal or greater quantity - as for example , the consumption of seed and husbandry implements by a farmer : no por- tion of the aggregate of wealth is destroyed ; but on the contrary , there is , in ...
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... tion of land . It has been proposed to equalize this pressure by substituting for the parochial poor - rate a ge- neral national tax . But this is open to many ob- jections . It would alter to a very great extent the value of all ...
... tion of land . It has been proposed to equalize this pressure by substituting for the parochial poor - rate a ge- neral national tax . But this is open to many ob- jections . It would alter to a very great extent the value of all ...
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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE ON the Coincidence of | 1 |
Primary Natural Rights1 To Personal | 13 |
Duty of a Government the securing | 28 |
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