 | United States. Congress - 1849 - 760 էջ
...ease, because the taxes were laid on so many different objects. The mere circumstance of taxes being numerous in order to raise a given sum, is a considerable...towards equality in the burden falling on the people. A good system of taxation was that which bore lightly on an infinite number of points, heavily on none.... | |
 | Joseph Gales - 1849 - 760 էջ
...ease, because the taxes were laid on so many different objects. The mere circumstance of taxes being numerous in order to raise a given sum, is a considerable...towards equality in the burden falling on the people. A good system of taxation was that which borelighlly on an infinite number of points, heavily on none.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1861 - 630 էջ
...dwelling especially upon the importance of equality, he makes the following observations : — ' " The mere circumstance of taxes being very numerous...a considerable step towards equality in the burden * According to the calculation of the Inland Revenue Commissioners, 551 per cent, of .the tea duties... | |
 | 1863 - 1102 էջ
...support of these views he quoted the authority of Mr. Arthur Young, the celebrated agriculturist. " The mere circumstance of taxes being very numerous,...in the burden falling on the people ; if I was to devise a good system of taxation, it should be that of lightly bearing on an infinite number of points,... | |
 | 1863 - 1076 էջ
...variety of points on which they bear. The mere circumstance of taxes being very numerous in order to mise a given sum is a considerable step towards equality in the burden falling on the people. If I were to define a good system of taxation, it should be that of bearing lightly on an inßnite number... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 506 էջ
...arrangement of a system of taxation,' the following opinion of Arthur Young : ' The mere circumstances of taxes being very numerous, in order to raise a...equality in the burden falling on the people ; if I were to define a good system of taxation, it should be that of bearing lightly on an infinite number... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 էջ
...a most useful practical guide in the arrangement of a system of taxation," the following opinion of Arthur Young: "The mere circumstance of taxes being...order to raise a given sum, is a considerable step toward equality in the burden falling on the people ; if I were to define a good system of taxation,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1896 - 598 էջ
...speech which he made as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1857, quoted the following striking passage from Arthur Young : ' The mere circumstance of taxes being...equality in the burden falling on the people. If I were to define a good system of taxation, it should be that of bearing lightly on an infinite number... | |
 | 1897 - 678 էջ
...of taxation. Arthur Young, than whom no one has possessed more practical common sense, wrote : — " The mere circumstance of taxes being very numerous,...considerable step towards equality in the burden falling upon the people ; if I was to define a good system of taxation, it should be that of bearing lightly... | |
 | 1897 - 706 էջ
...more practical common sense, wrote : — " The mere circumstance of taxes being very -numerous, ill order to raise a given sum, is a considerable step towards equality in the burden falling upon the people ; if I was to define a good system of taxation, it should be that of bearing lightly... | |
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I were to define a good system of taxation, it should be that of bearing lightly on an infinite number of points, heavily on none. In other words, that simplicity in taxation is the greatest additional weight that can be given to taxes, and ought in every... 
