The British Taxpayer and His Wrongs: Including an Analysis of a Typical Year's Imperial and Local Taxation, with Remarks on the Budget Proposals of 26th March, 1888, and an Appendix |
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... course of the life of a nation the wealthy become the possessors of power , if not the actual framers of the laws , and the philosophic statesman , however willing to follow the teachings of political economy , finds himself too often ...
... course of the life of a nation the wealthy become the possessors of power , if not the actual framers of the laws , and the philosophic statesman , however willing to follow the teachings of political economy , finds himself too often ...
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... course has been Free trade or powerfully exposed by the late Professor Fawcett . * can the British Nation fairly object to this when it raises so large a proportion of its own public revenue from Customs Duties , a sensible part too of ...
... course has been Free trade or powerfully exposed by the late Professor Fawcett . * can the British Nation fairly object to this when it raises so large a proportion of its own public revenue from Customs Duties , a sensible part too of ...
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... course directed against the taxes themselves , and in no sense against those who have to administer the tax laws ; and I may state that whenever the public records did not sufficiently explain matters and required further explana- tion ...
... course directed against the taxes themselves , and in no sense against those who have to administer the tax laws ; and I may state that whenever the public records did not sufficiently explain matters and required further explana- tion ...
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... course lies in finding a substitute for so large a loss of revenue . The Commissioners of Customs , in their annual reports , show that their officers , besides their ordinary revenue work , are employed in many other ways relating to ...
... course lies in finding a substitute for so large a loss of revenue . The Commissioners of Customs , in their annual reports , show that their officers , besides their ordinary revenue work , are employed in many other ways relating to ...
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... course , and die out before long . Certain it is that taxa- tion does not stop drunkenness . Regarding the subject from another point of view , does it seem a fitting thing that the correctness of a Chancellor of the Exchequer's ...
... course , and die out before long . Certain it is that taxa- tion does not stop drunkenness . Regarding the subject from another point of view , does it seem a fitting thing that the correctness of a Chancellor of the Exchequer's ...
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