 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...of customs' duties is subject to a drawhack of five times that amount. 'Every tax,' says Adam Smith, 'ought to be so contrived as both to take out and...of the pockets of the people as little as possible above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.' ' No,' says the Right Honourable the Chancellor... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1859 - 760 pages
...expensive State establishments. 3. Taxation should be so contrived as, in the words of Adam Smith, ' to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people...as little as possible over and above what it brings into the Treasury of the State.' 4. Taxation ought not to be so devised as to render its payment optional... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it, &c" Fourth. — Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take...little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury ot the State," &c. \ On the subject of rent he was equally just and comprehensive.... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1860 - 282 pages
...said to be opposed to the principle that every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury. Doubtless the trader and dealer must charge interest and profit not only... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1860 - 72 pages
...advantage to government. And hence they should be contrived, as Smith has stated in his fourth maxim, so as to take out, and keep out, of the pockets of the people as little as possible above what they bring into the public treasury. Sully states, in his Memoirs, that the expense of collecting... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1862 - 746 pages
...exception of the Land Tax, which is unequally, and, therefore, unjustly assessed. Adam Smith said : — " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take...as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State." This is an axiom which cannot be disputed, and this is a condemnation... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 874 pages
...time, and in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take...as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state." The taxes of most of the nations of Europe prior to the present... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pages
...the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. 4. Every tas ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep...as little as possible over and above what it brings into the ' public treasury of the state." The taxes of most of the nations of Europe prior to the present... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1863 - 548 pages
...to in their selection. Every tax should, as Smith has stated in his fourth maxim, be contrived so as to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible above what it puts into the public treasury. The nett produce of a tax, or the sum which it yields... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1863 - 438 pages
...shirked or repudiated by any honest man any more than any other debt. (2.) That taxation should take and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible beyond what it yields to the public exchequer. (3.) That the public revenue should be raised from the... | |
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Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. 
