 | Joseph Priestley - 1788 - 570 стор.
...witnefs Perfia and China. The great abufes which ar,ife from the fyftem of taxation in France proceed not from the number, or the weight, of the taxes, but from the expenfive, unequal, arbitrary, and intricate method of levying them them; by which induftry is difcouraged,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1803 - 504 стор.
...one war on their account will much more than overbalance any advantage of that kind. Taxes are raised with the least trouble to the government by means...no less than * Political Economy> vol. ip 512, ten per cent, whereas in England the expense of collecting the excise, administered by commissioners, who... | |
 | David Hume - 1804 - 592 стор.
...proceed not froto the number or weight of the taxes, beyond what are to be met with in free countries ; but from the expensive, unequal, arbitrary, and intricate method of levying them, by which the industry of the poor, especially of the peasants and farmers, is, in a great measure, discouraged,... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 868 стор.
...proceed no; 99 from the number or weight of the taxes, beyond what are to be met with in free countries ; but from the expensive, unequal, arbitrary, and intricate method of levying them, by which the industry of the poor, especially of the peasants and farmers, is, in a great measure, discouraged,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1826 - 652 стор.
...China. The great abuses which arose from the system of taxation in France proceeded not from their number, or the weight of the taxes, but from the expensive,...France, says sir James Stewart*, the collection of taxes costs the state no less than ten per cent; whereas in England the expence of collecting the excise,... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 586 стор.
...proceed not from the number or weight of the taxes, beyond what are to be met with in free countries ; but from the expensive, unequal, arbitrary, and intricate method of levying them, by which the industry of the poor, especially of the peasants and farmers, is in a great measure discouraged,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1863 - 548 стор.
...proceed not from the number or weight of the taxes, beyond what are to be met with in free countries ; but from the expensive, unequal, arbitrary, and intricate method of levying them, by which the industry of the poor, especially of the peasants and farmers, is, in great measure, discouraged,... | |
 | David Hume - 1889 - 530 стор.
...proceed not from the number or weight of the taxes, beyond what are to be met with in free countries ; but from the expensive, unequal, arbitrary, and intricate method of levying them, by which the industry of the poor, especially of the peasants and farmers, is, in a great measure, discouraged,... | |
 | David Hume, Stuart D. Warner, Donald W. Livingston - 1994 - 292 стор.
...proceed not from the number or weight of the taxes, beyond what are to be met with in free countries; but from the expensive, unequal, arbitrary, and intricate method of levying them, by which the industry of the poor, especially of the peasants and farmers, is, in a great measure, discouraged,... | |
 | David Hume - 2003 - 376 стор.
...proceed not from the number or weight of the taxes, beyond what are to be met with in free countries; but from the expensive, unequal, arbitrary, and intricate method of levying them, by which the industry of the poor, especially of the peasants and farmers, is, in a great measure, discouraged,... | |
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The greatest abuses which arise in France, the most perfect model of pure monarchy, proceed not from the number or weight of the taxes, beyond what are to be met with in free countries ; but from the expensive, unequal, arbitrary, and intricate method... 
