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Tariff Reform, the Paramount Issue; Speeches and Writings on the Questions Involved in the Presidential Contest of 1892

Tariff Reform, the Paramount Issue; Speeches and Writings on the Questions Involved in the Presidential Contest of 1892


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [Fom the North American Review, June, 1883.] INCIDENTAL TAXATION. The incidental taxes to which attention is directed are levied whenever the cost of domestic commodities is increased by reason of duties laid on imported articles of like character. Political economists have usually classified taxes as either direct or indirect. Direct taxes are those which fall upon the citizen or subject, and are levied from him; indirect taxes are levied on property, merchandise, commodities, and are, in the last resort, paid by the consumer in the form of an enhanced price. Adam Smith, the father of the science of political economy, laid down four maxims in regard to taxation, which have generally been concurred in, and which, as remarked by John Stuart Mill, have become classical. These maxims are in substance as follows: First?The subjects of every State ought to contribute to 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 State. Second?The tax should be certain, and not arbitrary; the time and manner of payment and the amount to be paid should be definite, and understood by all persons. Third?Every tax should be levied at the time and in the manner most convenient for payment. Fourth?Every tax ought to be so contrived as to take from the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury. These propositions seem to be self-evident; that they are correct in principle is not denied by any one. Yet, strange as it may seem, the system of taxation upon which the Government of the United States relies for its revenues violates nearly every one of these maxims. The first maxim is violated in this: that ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217879866
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 166
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217879861
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 308 gr


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