National Finance: A Review of the Policy of the Last Two Parliaments, and of the Results of Modern Fiscal LegislationLongmans, Green & Company, 1875 - 368 ページ |
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Abyssinian Abyssinian War additional agricultural Alabama claims amount Assessed Taxes average Bank Bank of England British Budget burden capital cent Chancellor charges classes coffee collected colonies commerce considerable consumption Corn Corn Laws Customs and Excise Customs duties Disraeli effect ending 5th April estimated Exchequer expenditure exports fact favour Financial Statement Fiscal Legislation foreign free trade Gladstone Government growth important Income Tax increase indirect taxation labour land landowners less levied licenses Lowe Lowe's mainly malt manufactures ment National Debt owners paid Parliament period population pressure of taxation principle profits proposed prosperity question railway real property receipts reduced reform relief remissions of taxation rent repeal respect result revenue Sir Massey Lopes Sir Robert Peel Sir Stafford Northcote spirits Stamps Succession Duty sugar duties surplus taxpayer tion tons trade and industry United Kingdom voted W. H. Smith wages wealth
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198 ページ - This habit of exaction has been perpetuated to our own day. As an every day instance, I may mention that, only a few months, ago a gentleman of great wealth was selling to a railway company which he had supported in Parliament, thirty acres of grass land, of which the admitted agricultural value was 100?. an acre, and three acres of limestone, of which the proved...
173 ページ - Bread-taxed weaver, all can see What that tax hath done for thee, And thy children, vilely led, Singing hymns for shameful bread, Till the stones of every street Know their little naked feet.
331 ページ - Equality of taxation, therefore, as a maxim of politics, means equality of sacrifice. It means apportioning the contribution of each person towards the expenses of government, so that he shall feel neither more nor less inconvenience from his share of the payment than every other person experiences from his.
172 ページ - ... had been but lately brought together, were all young soldiers, and not a dozen of the officers had ever seen a shot fired : all this was awkward. But allowing that no error occurred, what a slaughter ! Good God what work ! to send grape-shot from four guns into a helpless mass of fellow-citizens; sweeping the streets with fire and charging with cavalry, destroying poor people whose only crime is that they have been ill-governed, and reduced to such straits that they seek redress by arms, ignorant...
173 ページ - Child, what hast thou with sleep to do ? Awake, and dry thine eyes! Thy tiny hands must labour too ; Our bread is tax'd — arise ! Arise, and toil long hours twice seven, For pennies two or three ; Thy woes make angels weep in Heaven,— But England still is free. Up, weary man, of eighty-five, And toil in hopeless woe ! Our bread is tax'd, our rivals thrive, Our gods will have it so. Yet God is undethron'd on high, And undethroned will be : Father of all ! hear Thou our cry, And England shall be...
184 ページ - ... people a large revenue without their knowledge. In the first place, we say, that a free people ought to know what they pay for freedom, and to pay it joyfully, and that they should as truly scorn to be cheated into the support of their government, as into the support of their children. In the next place, a large revenue is no blessing. An overflowing treasury will always be corrupting to the governors and the governed. A revenue, rigorously proportioned to the wants of a people, is as much as...
345 ページ - Majesty derived the utmost gratification from the loyalty and affectionate attnchment to her 'Majesty, which were manifested on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to Scotland. "Her Majesty regrets that in the course of last year the public peace in some of the manufacturing districts was seriously disturbed, and the lives and property of her Majesty's subjects were endangered by tumultuous assemblages and acts of open violence.
332 ページ - It would be equally idle to offer any special plea on its behalf in reference to developments purely external. The railway and the telegraph, the factory, the forge, and the mine ; the highways beaten upon every ocean ; the first place in the trade of the world, where population would give us but the fifth ; a commercial marine equalling that of the whole of Continental Europe : these may be left to tell their own tale.
180 ページ - ... candles, soap, and a little tobacco. Hardly any one of those articles is free from being taxed. Let us see what is the influence of taxation on that class of the community. It is inevitable, with a system of indirect taxation, that they must pay heavily; but I know, if the burden presses unjustly upon them, it is from no want of sympathy on the part of the gentlemen of England; it is, however, inevitable: we must raise a great part of our taxation by indirect taxes, and the burden will be unequally...