Ernährungswirtschaftliche Gegenwartsprobleme in Österreich

Theoretische Sozialökonomie

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Identifikator:: 1011190613

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-21005

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Loewenfeld-Russ, Hans http://d-nb.info/gnd/118813692

Title:: Ernährungswirtschaftliche Gegenwartsprobleme in Österreich

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Manzsche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1919

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (42 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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17721 Essays - 29 though many can forgive injuries, none ever for- gave contempt. 9. In laying these taxes, never regard the heavy burdens those remote people already undergo, in de- fending their own frontiers, supporting their own provincial government, making new roads, building bridges, churches, and other public edifices; which in old countries have been done to your hands by your ancestors, but which occasion constant calls and demands on the purses of a new people. Forget the restraint you lay on their trade for your own benefit, and the advantage a monoply of this trade gives your exacting merchants. Think nothing of the wealth those merchants and your manufacturers ac- quire by the colony commerce; their increased ability thereby to pay taxes at home; their accumulating, in the price of their commodities, most of those taxes, and so levying them from their consuming customers; all this, and the employment and support of thou- sands of your poor by the colonists, you are entirely to forget. But remember to make your arbitrary tax more grievous to your provinces, by public declara- tions importing that your power of taxing them has no limits; so that, when you take from them with- out their consent a shilling in the pound, you have a clear right to the other nineteen. This will probably weaken every idea of security in their property, and convince them that under such a government they have nothing they can call their own; which can scarce fail of producing the happiest consequences! 10. Possibly, indeed, some of them might still com- Bs Te

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