To lay with one hand the power of the Government on the property of the citizen and with the other to bestow It upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms... Report: to Accompany Bill H.R. 9051 - Page 140by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1888Full view - About this book
| Bee culture - 1892 - 710 pages
...citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprise, and to build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery...done under the forms of law, and is called taxation." It is altogether wrong, and as beekeepers we only desire what is right. The following, from Volney... | |
| Law - 1875 - 438 pages
...upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, la none the less a robbery because It is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This ls not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. A " tax," says Webster's... | |
| Science - 1890 - 980 pages
...from which the bounty is to be " bestowed upon private individuals to aid private enterprises becomes none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of law, and is called taxation." This proposition brings the effect of this theory of protection directly into view; one may well ask why... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1873 - 860 pages
...the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery...done under the forms of law and is called Taxation." Albert Gallatin declared that "the system is in itself an infraction of an essential part of the liberty... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 788 pages
...upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law,...legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. Nor ia it taxation. A " Tax," says Webster's Dictionary, " is a rate Vol. II.] CITIZENS' SAVINGS, ETC.,... | |
| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 966 pages
...upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law...legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." The principle has been so often adjudicated it is not necessary to cite other authority than the case... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 1682 pages
...upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises, and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law...legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." The suit was on bonds issued by the city of Topeka, in aid of a manufacturing company, in virtue of... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1148 pages
...upon favored Individuals • » * Is none the less robbery because done under the forms of law and called 'taxation.' This is not legislation. It Is...decree under legislative forms. Nor is It taxation." The Supreme Court of West Virginia, in Varner v. Martin, 21 W. Va. 534, 548, Judge Green, on behalf... | |
| Economics - 1881 - 446 pages
...property of the citizen and with the other bestow it on favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery...decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. Beyond a cavil there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose. * * * If it be said... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1883 - 1076 pages
...of the citizen, and with the other bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of the law and is called taxation. This is not legislation; it is a decree under legislative forms. Nor... | |
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