The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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A.D. 1776 —1850. he pres- sure of ta2ation. LAISSEZ FAIRE on the poor man’s salt, and the rich man’s spice—on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride—at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay :—The school-boy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road;.and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel. His virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble, and he will then be gathered to his fathers to be taxed no more.” t Sidney Smith, Works (1839), 11. 13. Edinburgh Review, xxxm1. (Jan. 1820), p. 77. The following summary, extracted from Mr Dowell’s work, 11. p. 257, gives a convenient view of the nature of the taxation levied in Great Britain in 1815. 1. Direct Taxes. The land tax . . The taxes on houses and establishments Property and income tax . . . Property insured . . . 7 The tax on succession to property Property sold at amction . 8 Coaches, posting and hackney cabs Tonnage on shipping . . x 1,196,000 6,500,000 14,600,000 918,000 1,297,000 284,000 171,608 171,651 £25.438.259 Total Eatables: Salt . Sugar . “ Currants, &e. . Beer, malt, hops Wine " Spirits ” » Tea . . . Coffea II, Taxes on Articles of Consumption. . 1,616,671 2,957,403 541,589 9,596,346 1,900,772 6,700,000 8,591,850 276.700 Tobacco . . . . . . 3 . . Coals, raw materials for manufactures, buildings, ship-building and other trades Manufactures 22,065,168 2.025.663 6,062,214 1.080.721 III. Stamp Duties. Bills and hotes . Receipts . . Other instruments Total 841,000 210,000 1,692,000 £67.530.68%

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