Taxation and the Distribution of Wealth: Studies in the Economic, Ethical, and Practical Relations of Fiscal Systems to Social Organization

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Doubleday, Page, 1914 - 680 עמודים
 

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עמוד 208 - There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
עמוד 124 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
עמוד 21 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
עמוד 552 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your Republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the 20th Century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth...
עמוד 388 - And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
עמוד 379 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
עמוד 552 - Your fate I believe to be certain, though it is deferred by a physical cause. As long as you have a boundless extent of fertile and unoccupied land...
עמוד 542 - Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us : that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
עמוד 117 - Can we be said to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us if we wantonly inflict on them even the smallest pain?
עמוד 310 - As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.

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