A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government: Including a View of the Taxation of the French EmpireHopkins and Earle, 1810 - 253 páginas |
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Página 108 - They are all more or less unthrifty taxes that increase the revenue of the sovereign, which seldom maintains any but unproductive labourers ; at the expense of the capital of the people, which maintains none but productive.