 Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the taxgatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself.  The Politician's Creed - Page 97by Robert John Thornton - 1799 - 2 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1801 - 448 pages
...is otherwife, every perfon fnbjecl to the tax is put more or lefs in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious...uncertainty of taxation encourages the infolence and favors the corruption of an order of men who are naturally unpopular, even where they are neither infolent... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 532 pages
...is otherwife, every perfon fubject to the tax is put more or lefs in the power of the taxgatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of Ikch aggravation, fome prefent or perquifite to himfelf. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 668 pages
...truly observes,) every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such, aggravation, some present or perquisite, to himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1876 - 1102 pages
...is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present <r perquisite to himself. Arbitrariness of exaction was one of tk abuses... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 776 pages
...otherwise, every person, subject to the tax, is put, more or less, in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, somn present or perquisite for himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
 | Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland. Parliamentary Committee - Ireland - 1845 - 538 pages
...every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can cither aggravate the tax .upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. The certainty of what each individual ought... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 588 pages
...is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the taxgatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself. The uncertainty of taxation encourages the... | |
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