 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1872 - 590 pages
...maxims, since it is specially designed to make all subjects contribute to the support of the Government in proportion to their respective abilities — that...respectively enjoy under the protection of the State. Suppose that, of two men, one enjoys, under the protection of the State, £500 a year of revenue derived... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 568 pages
...to tax incomes at all is far from being above question. It is a primary principle of taxation that "the subjects of every State ought to contribute to...respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State." This principle, formulated more than a... | |
 | Henry Fawcett - Economics - 1874 - 654 pages
...language, when apparently clear, sometimes fails to convey a definite meaning. His words are these : ' The subjects of every State ought to contribute to...respectively enjoy under the protection of the State.' Upon this fundamental principle it is repeatedly said that every system of taxation ought to be based.... | |
 | Britton Armstrong Hill - United States - 1874 - 268 pages
...the maxims of taxation in this manner: 1. " The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible,...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the stater 2. " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary; the... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Taxation - 1874 - 384 pages
...incomes. This follows indeed from Adam Smith's dictum, that the subjects of a state ought to contribute in proportion to their respective abilities, that...proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy. But throughout this treatise I have maintained another opinion : — that just as a town which demands... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1908 - 864 pages
...support of the Government ns 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 State. When a citizen pays taxes according to his income, from whatever source it may be derived, he is giving... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...maxims with regard to taxes in general. 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. The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation, is like the expense of management to... | |
 | Massachusetts. Commission on Taxation, 1874-1875 - Taxation - 1875 - 634 pages
...economy and its justice. " The subjects of every state," says Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, "ought to contribute to the support of the government,...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... | |
 | 1876 - 412 pages
...plaats van A, Sinith, *) waar hij zegt : »The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards »the support of the government, as nearly as possible...proportion »to the revenue which they respectively enjoy nnder the pro»tection of the state. The expence of government to the » individuals of' a great nation,... | |
 | 1876 - 796 pages
...plaats van A. Siuith, *) waar l dj zegt: »The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards »the support of the government, as nearly as possible...proportion »to the revenue which they respectively enjoj' under the pro»tection of the state. The expence of governmeut to the »individuals of a great... | |
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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... 
