 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 strani
...stamp duties have, in Europe, become almost universal, and duties upon registration extremely common. There is no art which one government sooner learns...of draining money from the pockets of the people. Taxes upon the transference of property from the dead to the living, fall finally, as weli as immediately,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 542 strani
...univerfal, and duties upon regiftration extremely common. There is no art which one government fooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. Taxes upon the transference of property from the dead to the living, fall finally as well as immediately... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 strani
...exactly of this nature. Be this as it may, Adam Smith has sarcastically observed, that "there is no act one government sooner learns of another, than that...of draining money from the pockets of the people;" and, to say truth, William of Orange had not this secret of the stamp tax to learn, coming to this... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 strani
...stamp-duties have, in Europe, become almost universal, and duties upon registrillion extremely common. There is no art which one government sooner learns...of draining money from the pockets of the people. Taxes upon the transference of property from the dead to the living, fall finally, as well as immediately,... | |
 | 1843 - 1006 strani
...benn eé ifl eine grofje SBafyrlieit, bie unfer guter alter 2ibam Smitf) in ben SBortfn auebrutft: „There is no art which one government sooner learns...of draining money from the pockets of the people. ((53 gibt feine Äunfi, гое1фе eme JRegíerung fфneUer »en ber anbern lernt, al« bie, bem SSolfe... | |
 | William Neilson Hancock - 1850 - 218 strani
...stampduties have, in Europe, become almost universal, and duties upon registration extremely common. There is no art which one government sooner learns...of draining money from the pockets of the people." Now, in former times, and, indeed, until very recently, the whole question of taxation was looked on... | |
 | Karl Knies - 1853 - 386 strani
...themselves always . and without any exception the greatest spendthrifts in the society etc. II, 3: — — There is no art, which one government sooner learns...of draining money from the pockets of the people.. Ш, 4: All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems in every" age. of the world to have been... | |
 | Shopkeeper, Robert Kemp Philp - 1853 - 264 strani
...year H!24, and not long afterwards became general in Europe; there being, as Adam Smith remarks, " no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of deriving money from the pockets of the people." ' The following is the Schedule of the New Stamp Act,... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1860 - 72 strani
...of the justice of Smith's caustic remark, that " there is no art which one government sooner k-arns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people" (p. 389). Stamp-duties were introduced into England in 1671, by a statute entitled " An act for laying... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1862 - 746 strani
...stamp duties have, in Europe, become almost universal, and duties upon registration extremely common. There is no art which one government sooner learns...of draining money from the pockets of the people. Taxes upon the transference of property from the dead to the living, fall finally as well as immediately... | |
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. 
