 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1835 - 862 pages
...from1 being supplied by increased consumption in the proportion experienced by their predecessors. III. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to individuals is like the expense of management to the joint tenants... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1871 - 1374 pages
...thus in effect partially conform to Adam Smith's first accepted maxim in regard to taxation, that : " The subjects of every State ought to contribute towards...possible in proportion to their respective abilities." The section of the old law so amended was introduced into the Legislature. It did not change the words... | |
 | Wiliam adn Sons - 1838 - 624 pages
...capability to bear it. Adam Smith states it as the first and most essential maxim of taxation, that " the subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...THE private revenue of individuals, it has four following maxims with regard to taxes in general. 1. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, ал nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...particular taxes, it is necessary to premise the four following maxims with regard to taxes in general. I. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 456 pages
...Nations," several maxims are laid down with regard to taxation; the first of which is as follows. " The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation, is like the expense of management... | |
 | Ayling Chamberlain - Commercial law - 1841 - 30 pages
...leave to introduce here, the words of a celebrated writer on political economy, who observes : " That the subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state." To this doctrine I yield my cordial consent. We should, indeed, always be willing to contribute... | |
 | Maryland. High Court of Chancery, Theodorick Bland - Equity - 1841 - 706 pages
...as having been finally put to rest. It has been laid down as a settled principle, that the citizens of every state ought to contribute towards the support...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to the individuals of a nation is like the expense of management to... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1872 - 578 pages
...contribute to the support of the Government in proportion to their respective abilities — that ie, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State. Suppose that, of two men, one enjoys, under the protection of the State, £500 a year of revenue... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 554 pages
...as proceeding from an authority so high that not to notice them might be accounted an omission. I. 'The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.' II. ' The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary.... | |
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The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the... 
