 Smith wrote that the subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government as nearly as possible In proportion to their respective abilities: that Is, In proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection...  Political Economy - Page 441by Francis Amasa Walker - 1883 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1833 - 598 pages
...into the mode in which a property and an income tax should be assessed. I. Dr Smith lays it down, that the subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government, ' as nearly ' as possible in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, * in proportion... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 526 pages
...principle laid down by the modern parent of sound political economy, (A Smith, vol. 3 p. 256.) that " the subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state," which... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 642 pages
...lecrssary to give sanction to a rule of such apparent j'us-ice — "That the subjects of every S'.atc ought to contribute towards the support of the Government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to the revenue which they enjoy under the protection of the State. The expense of Government to the individuals... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1830 - 660 pages
...and, indeed, no authority is necessary to give sanction to a rule of such apparent justice — "That the subjects of every State ought to contribute towards...Government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to the revenue which they enjoy under the protection of the State. The expense of Government to the individuals... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 446 pages
...Dr. Adam Smith in his " Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," viz., that " the subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of goverument in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue which... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1847 - 892 pages
...almost all the principles of taxation so admiraWy laid down by Adam Smith, to the effect — 1st, That the subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of Government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities — that is, in proportion... | |
 | Benjamin Sayer - Income tax - 1833 - 462 pages
...less to the attention of all Nations." These Maxims, as stated by that Writer, are as follows. 1st. " The subjects of every State ought to contribute towards...support of the Government as nearly as possible in propor" tion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the '' Revenue which they respectively... | |
 | Benjamin Sayer - Income tax - 1833 - 502 pages
...less to the attention of all Nations." These Maxims, as stated by that Writer, are as follows. 1st. " The subjects of every State ought to contribute towards " the support of the Government as nearly as possibje in propor" tion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the '' Revenue which... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...THE private revenue of individuals, it has four following maxims with regard to taxes in general. 1. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, ал nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the... | |
 | Luke James Hansard - 1843 - 398 pages
...certainly, but which would be found to be eminently inefficacious if tried by experience ; it is this: " The subjects of every state " ought to contribute towards the support of the Gov" ernment, as nearly as possible in proportion to their " respective abilities; that is, in proportion... | |
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