The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Political economy reading book - Page 227by sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882Full view - About this book
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| Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
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| Europe - 1811 - 858 pages
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| Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 542 pages
...tax falling unequally even upon that particular fort of private revenue which is affected by it. II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought...clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other perfon. Where it is otherwife, every perfon fubject to the tax is put more or lefs in the power of... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 520 pages
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| Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 532 pages
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| Walter Scott - Europe - 1811 - 860 pages
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| 1811 - 854 pages
...people. According to the present system, the sum which each person is bound to pay is not certain, but arbitrary : the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, are none of them clear or plain to the contributor, or to any other per. son ; whereas it is an established... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 668 pages
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| David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 560 pages
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