Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

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Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. The examination of Dr. Benjamin Franklin in the british house of commons

Collection:: Economics Books

Benjamin Franklin [1766 Indies; but the duty of four and a half per cent. on sugars exported was, I believe, granted by their own assemblies. Q. How much is the poll-tax in your province laid on unmarried men? A. It is, I think, fifteen shillings, to be paid by every single freeman upwards of twenty-one years old. OQ. What is the annual amount of all the taxes in Pennsylvania? A. 1 suppose about twenty thousand pounds sterling. QO. Supposing the Stamp Act continued and en- forced, do you imagine that ill-humor will induce the Americans to give as much for worse manufactures of their own, and use them, preferable to better of ours? A. Yes, I think so. People will pay as freely to gratify one passion as another, their resentment as their pride. 0. Would the people at Boston discontinue their trade? A. The merchants are a very small number com- pared with the body of the people, and must discon- tinue their trade if nobody will buy their goods. OQ. What are the body of the people in the col- onies? A. They are farmers, husbandmen, or planters. OQ. Would they suffer the produce of their lands to rot? A. No: but they would not raise so much. They would manufacture more and plough less. 100 Ta

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