Das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten

Über asiatische Wechselkurse

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Identifikator:: 881661368

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-3236

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Goldberger, Ludwig Max http://d-nb.info/gnd/117548804

Title:: Das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten

Edition:: Achte Auflage

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: F. Fontane & Co.

Year of publication:: 1911

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (299 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Kapitel XIV. Kritik des Trustwesens

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Benjamin Franklin [1766 should make a merit to itself of giving and granting what is not its own, but theirs; and deprive them of a right they esteem of the utmost value and impor- tance, as it is the security of all their other rights. Q. But is not the post-office, which they have long received, a tax as well as a regulation? A. No; the money paid for the postage of a letter is not of the nature of a tax; it is merely a quantum meruit for a service done; no person is compellable to pay the money if he does not choose to receive the service. A man may still, as before the act, send his letter by a servant, a special messenger, or a friend, if he thinks it cheaper and safer. 0. But do they not consider the regulations of the post-office, by the act of last year, as a tax? A. By the regulations of last year the rate of postage was generally abated near thirty per cent. through all America; they certainly cannot consider such abatement as a tax. Q. If an excise was laid by Parliament, which they might likewise avoid paying, by not consum- ing the articles excised, would they then not object to 1t? A. They would certainly object to it, as an excise is unconnected with any service done, and is merely an aid, which they think ought to be asked of them, and granted by them, if they are to pay it: and can be granted to them by no others whatsoever, whom they have not empowered for that purpose. QO. You say they do not object to the right of Par- liament, in laying duties on goods to be paid on their importation; now, is there any kind of difference 08

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