Taxation: Its Levy and Expenditure, Past and Future: Being an Enquiry Into Our Financial PolicyD. Appleton & Company, 1866 - 255 sivua |
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Sivu 185 - when a certain amount of expenditure for a particular service has been determined upon by Parliament, it is the bounden duty of the department which has that service under its charge and control to take care that the expenditure does not exceed the amount placed at its disposal for that...
Sivu 188 - The consequence of this must be, that no increase of relative strength will accrue to any one power ; but there must be a universal consumption of the resources of every country in military preparations. They are, in fact, depriving peace of half its advantages, and anticipating the energies of war whenever they may be required.
Sivu 44 - during the present war, and until the 6th day of April, which shall first happen after the expiration of one year from the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace.
Sivu 188 - The true interest of Europe is to come to some common accord, so as to enable every country to reduce those military armaments which belong to a state of war rather than of peace. I do wish that the councils of every country, or that the public voice and mind, if the councils will not, would willingly propagate such a doctrine.
Sivu 244 - ... introduced into the gay world of London; each with an ample fortune; both having the same parentage (for the parents of both I believe to be Necessity and Invention); differing only as sisters may differ, as...
Sivu 188 - Is not the time come," said he, " when the powerful countries of Europe should reduce those military armaments which they have so sedulously raised ? Is not the time come, when they should be prepared to declare that there is no use in such overgrown establishments? What is the advantage of one power greatly increasing its army and navy ? Does it not see that...
Sivu 66 - Closed transpai ent oiled-silk bags must no longer be used for this purpose, as the officers of the Post-Office in France are all instructed to treat packets of this description as letters, upon the ground that they are hermetically closed, and cannot be examined.
Sivu 233 - Thus every one of those principalities has the apparatus of a kingdom for the jurisdiction over a few private estates, and the formality and charge of the Exchequer of Great Britain for collecting the rents of a country squire.
Sivu 242 - It is an awful consideration that in England, abounding as it does with wealth and prosperity, there are nearly a million of human beings receiving indoor and outdoor relief as paupers in the different unions, besides the still greater number dependent upon the hand of charity. As the population of England and Wales, by the last census, was 20,205,504 it follows that nearly one-twentieth part of our people are subsisting upon charity ! " Other and later authorities place the number of actual paupers...
Sivu 55 - Various plans for levying the tax more equitably have been brought under its notice : and it appears evident to Your Committee, that to be equitable the tax should every year be levied on the value of the property, labour and skill being the property of large classes, of the country; and that each person having more than a minimum amount of income, should contribute in proportion to the share of that value in his possession. The tax would thus become in the strict sense of the word a Property- tax,...