| Economics - 1881 - 446 pages
...drawn is the production of the community, the combined earnings of all citizens. 3. Citizens should contribute to the support of the government in proportion to their respective abilities. 4. The tax should be fixed and not arbitrary, and every feature of the system clear and plain to the... | |
| Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1884 - 504 pages
...on political economy have laid down as one of their maxims, that every subject of a country should contribute to the support of the government, in proportion to their respective abilities. Such is not the case under the tariff laws. Each person contributes to the support of the government,... | |
| Edward Taylor (of Bowling Green, Ky.) - Free trade - 1888 - 286 pages
...of taxation laid down by Adam Smith, and which have become classical. First, that all persons should contribute to the support of the Government in proportion to their respective abilities. Second, that the amount of the tax should be known, definite, and not arbitrary, incalculable, or changeable.... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on Taxation - Massachusetts - 1894 - 184 pages
...injurious results. It is one of the fundamental principles of our system of taxation that people ought to contribute to the support of the government in proportion to their respective abilities ; and we strongly urge the propriety and justice of taxing the ability or faculty whatever its basic... | |
| Gustav Cohn - Economics - 1895 - 824 pages
...characteristic that in this first rule Smith follows up the proposition : "The subjects of every state ought to contribute to the support of the government in proportion to their respective abilities," with this second proposition : "The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation, is... | |
| William Jay Youmans - Science - 1897 - 916 pages
...are to derive." DISCRIMINATING TAXATION. — The proposition that "the subjects of every state ought to contribute to the support of the Government in proportion to their respective abilities " embodies also, and inferentially favors the policy of discriminating taxation, and finds popular... | |
| American Academy of Political and Social Science - Constitutions - 1897 - 530 pages
...Declaration of Rights also declared poll-taxes " grievous and oppressive, and that all except paupers ought to contribute to the support of the government in proportion to their individual worth."* The constitutions of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maryland forbade the quartering... | |
| David Ames Wells - Taxation - 1900 - 658 pages
...are to derive." DISCRIMINATING TAXATION. — The proposition that " the subjects of every state ought to contribute to the support of the Government in proportion to their respective abilities" embodies also and inferentially favours the policy of discriminating taxation, and finds popular expression... | |
| Minnesota State Conference of Social Work - Public welfare - 1905 - 2210 pages
...having a little money and not enough to evade taxation. This does not constitute an equal contribution to the support of the government in proportion to their respective abilities. The present law is strong enough and just and equitable if all men would be truthful and honest when... | |
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