Excerpt from Who Pays Your Taxes?: A Consideration of the Question of Taxation It is not wonderful, however, that taxation should be Of so chaotic a character.2 It originated either in simple robbery or extortion by chiefs and kings, or in the price of protection from robbery,3 and as far as it has been con trolled by any practical theory it has been the theory Of the blackmailer or the bandit; that is, to prey upon its victims just to such an extent and in such ways as will leave the payees able to respond to further ...
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Excerpt from Who Pays Your Taxes?: A Consideration of the Question of Taxation It is not wonderful, however, that taxation should be Of so chaotic a character.2 It originated either in simple robbery or extortion by chiefs and kings, or in the price of protection from robbery,3 and as far as it has been con trolled by any practical theory it has been the theory Of the blackmailer or the bandit; that is, to prey upon its victims just to such an extent and in such ways as will leave the payees able to respond to further exactions. This is what we might call, after Colbert's famous say ing, the goose-plucking system of taxation. It has been succeeded, in theory at least, by taxes imposed by the people themselves for their common needs. What, then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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