| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Taxation - 1961 - 862 pages
...numbers of people to enforce them, obstruct the industry of the people and "discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance and employment to great multitudes," offers great temptation to avoid taxes, and "by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the... | |
| Science - 1922 - 378 pages
...taxation, he noted that a tax " may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance and employment to great multitudes." Subsequent writers on public finance have all laid stress on this so-called canon of economy, with... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1909 - 1132 pages
...for instance, that a tax ' may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business, which might give...destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so.' That is to say, the ultimate effect of a tax must not be to destroy the source from... | |
| National Tax Association - Local taxation - 1926 - 408 pages
...said, in condemning taxes that obstruct industry, " Such a tax, while it obligates the people to pay, may thus diminish or perhaps destroy some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so." There are other dangers in taxation of this kind when limited by the working of these... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Government publications - 1980 - 800 pages
..... following ways... it may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance...destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so." II. Effects of Tax Rate Changes on Aggregate Supply: Fart A of this section will... | |
| Simon R. James - Business & Economics - 2002 - 456 pages
...the people. Secondly, it may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance...destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so. Thirdly, by the forfeitures and other penalties which those unfortunate individuals... | |
| Simon James - Business & Economics - 2002 - 414 pages
...should not require 'a great number of officers'; it may '. . . discourage the people from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance and employment to great multitudes'; 'it may frequently ruin ... by forfeitures and other penalties . . . those unfortunate individuals... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Law - 2003 - 804 pages
...the people. Secondly. It may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance...destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so. Thirdly. By the forfeitures and other penalties which those unfortunate individuals... | |
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