Economic Tracts, Volume 1-10Society for Political Education, 1881 |
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Halaman 36 - To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation.
Halaman 13 - FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION: an Inquiry into the Causes which have retarded the general adoption of Free Trade since its introduction into England.
Halaman 8 - A great part of the capital of the country would thus be kept out of the hands which were most likely to make a profitable and advantageous use of it, and thrown into those which were most likely to waste and destroy it.
Halaman 7 - I have been accustomed to lay down to myself on this subject is the following one, viz. that no man of ripe years and of sound mind, acting freely, and with his eyes open, ought to be hindered, with a view to his advantage, from making such bargain, in the way of obtaining money, as he thinks fit: nor, (what is a necessary consequence) any body hindered from supplying him, upon any terms he thinks proper to accede to.
Halaman 36 - If it be said that a benefit results to the local public of a town by establishing manufactures, the same may be said of any other business or pursuit which employs capital or labor. The merchant, the mechanic, the innkeeper, the banker, the builder, the steamboat owner are equally promoters of the public good, and equally deserving the aid of the citizens by forced contributions.
Halaman 38 - The rate of interest upon the loan or forbearance of any money, goods or things in action...
Halaman 5 - The History of Usury from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, together with a Brief Statement of General Principles concerning the Conflict of...
Halaman 31 - 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.