This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...more easily to do so. Thirdly, by the penalties which those incur, who attempt unsuccessfully to evade the tax, it may ruin them, and thereby put an end to the benefits which the community might have received from the employment of their capitals."--Adam Smith. The indirect taxes are additional sources of national loss ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...more easily to do so. Thirdly, by the penalties which those incur, who attempt unsuccessfully to evade the tax, it may ruin them, and thereby put an end to the benefits which the community might have received from the employment of their capitals."--Adam Smith. The indirect taxes are additional sources of national loss: they occasion, in the first place, the greater part of the expenditure of between three and four millions, the cost of collection, and the preventive service. They are at once the cause and the support of the demoralizing and waste-inducing system of smuggling. They are also L almost insurmountable bars to effectual measures for the prevention of drunkenness and pauperism. How revolting, for instance, is it to every good feeling to read over the details of a debate in which the legislative wisdom of the land, the privileged and educated guardians of the welfare of the uneducated multitude, are employed in weighing, and nicely adjusting the tax on spirituous liquors, so as not to endanger the revenue by checking consumption. Were the revenue rendered independent of indirect taxation, ardent spirits might be taxed a guinea per drop! could such a tax not only check, but prevent consumption. As, however, inordinate taxation only acts as a bounty on smuggling; if we would rescue the labouring classes from demoralisation and pauperism, the use as well as the abuse of spirituous liquors, must be utterly prohibited. It should be made equally contrary to law to use, to sell, to possess, or to give away spirits of any kind. There should be no such thing as legal spirits; nothing, in short, that the smuggler could pass his spirits for. Nor need this incur any expense for a preventive service, for who would import or distil, what they could neither...
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