 | James Edwin Thorold Rogers - Economics - 1868 - 370 pages
...Briefly stated, they are as follows : — I. ' That the subjects of a State ought to contribute towards the support of the government as nearly as possible...abilities; that is in proportion to the revenue which they enjoy under the protection of the State.' Adam Smith compares this payment to the expense of managing... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1868 - 494 pages
...that the most direct are cheapest taxes, that the most just are those which require all men to pay " in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue they enjoy under the State" will discard every other form of taxation but that which comes immediately... | |
 | Amasa Walker - Economics - 1869 - 562 pages
...concurred in from that day to this, that, as J. Stuart Mill says, " they have become classic." I. " The subjects of every state ought to contribute to...abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue they enjoy under the protection of the state. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists... | |
 | Robert Dudley Baxter - Taxation - 1869 - 196 pages
...support Book V. of the Government as nearly as possible in proportion to their several c"al>- ''• abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue...respectively enjoy under the protection of the State." So that the rich man and the poor should each be assessed at an equal per centage on his annual incomings.... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 356 pages
...mind. His four maxims are well known.( 421 " I. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible,...respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. . . . "II. The tax which every individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary "... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 406 pages
...mind. His four maxims are well known.1421 " I. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible,...respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. . . . "II. The tax which every individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary ......... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1890 - 372 pages
...subjects of every State ought to contribute toward the support of the government as nearly as pos- . sible in proportion to their respective abilities, that...respectively enjoy under the protection of the State." 2 Who ever heard of an institution of learning enjoying revenues as stock-owners in a railroad company... | |
 | John Noble - Taxation - 1870 - 322 pages
...Income Tax Return, Sess. 1852, No. 399. Tenth Inland Revenue Report, 1866, App. p. 57. N contribute in proportion to the revenue, which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State, and that such income is protected by the State in which it accrues, not by that in which it is expended.... | |
 | George Long - Conduct of life - 1872 - 400 pages
...than to apply them. The first maxim is that the " subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible,...respectively enjoy under the protection of the State." The second maxim is this, " the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, not... | |
 | George Long - Conduct of life - 1872 - 400 pages
...than to apply them. The first maxim is that the " subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible,...respectively enjoy under the protection of the State." The second maxim is this, " the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, not... | |
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The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the 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 of the... 
