A Tax You Cannot See Is Still a Tax
Strip the wig off this business and look at it. A tax is a hand in a pocket. That is all it is. Every other description of it is decoration, and the…
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A Duty Upon Cloth Is a Tax Upon the Field
My colleague from the Treasury desk writes beautifully about credit, and I notice that every arrangement he proposes ends with more clerks in the capital and fewer shillings on the farm. I…
The Impost, Honestly Named, Is the Foundation of Public Credit
I have been asked to keep this brief. I have therefore removed the tables, which were the best part of it, and I want that noted. A nation is not judged by…
Upon the Necessity of a Revenue, Plainly Stated
I have read the King’s column. I will not answer its tone, which answers itself. I will answer its arithmetic, because the arithmetic is doing harm. A duty laid upon goods at…
We Are Pleased to Explain the Impost to Our Subjects
We are given to understand that Our subjects have questions respecting the new duties upon imported goods. We are pleased, though not obliged, to answer them. The first and most persistent error…