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You are getting taxed more and more and more so that Augustus can rule more of the world
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The instrumental ending taxed her playing to the utmost, especially when she was this baked
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Her good humor was genuine, but audibly taxed
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This second limitation of the freedom of trade, according to some people, should, upon most occasions, be extended much farther than to the precise foreign commodities which could come into competition with those which had been taxed at home
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When the necessaries of life have been taxed in any country, it becomes proper, they pretend, to tax not only the like necessaries of life imported from other countries, but all sorts of foreign goods which can come into competition with any thing that is the produce of domestic industry
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Every commodity, therefore, which is the produce of domestic industry, though not immediately taxed itself, becomes dearer in consequence of such taxes, because the labour which produces it becomes so
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The colonies may be taxed either by their own assemblies, or by the parliament of Great Britain
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It has been proposed, accordingly, that the colonies should be taxed by requisition, the parliament of Great Britain determining the sum which each colony ought to pay, and the provincial assembly assessing and levying it in the way that suited best the circumstances of the province
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The islands of Guernsey and Jersey, without any means of resisting the authority of parliament, are more lightly taxed than any part of Great Britain
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Examples are not wanting of empires in which all the different provinces are not taxed, if I may be allowed the expression, in one mass ; but in which the sovereign regulates the sum which each province ought to pay, and in some provinces assesses and levies it as he thinks proper ; while in others he leaves it to be assessed and levied as the respective states of each province shall determine
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They have rejected, therefore, the proposal of being taxed by parliamentary requisition, and, like other ambitious and high-spirited men, have rather chosen to draw the sword in defence of their own importance
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The parliament of Great Britain insists upon taxing the colonies ; and they refuse to be taxed by a parliament in which they are not represented
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perpetual monopoly, all the other subjects of the state are taxed very absurdly in two different ways : first, by the high price of goods, which, in the case of a free trade, they could buy much cheaper ; and, secondly, by their total exclusion from a branch of business which it might be both convenient and profitable for many of them to carry on
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It is for the most worthless of all purposes, too, that they are taxed in this manner
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In the Venetian territory, all the arable lands which are given in lease to farmers are taxed at a tenth of the rent
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In order to discourage the practice, which is generally a foolish one, this species of rent might be valued rather high, and consequently taxed somewhat higher than common money-rents
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According to that valuation, the lands belonging to the bishop of Breslaw are taxed at twenty-five per cent
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In the dominions of the king of Prussia, the revenue of the church is taxed much higher than that of lay proprietors
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In others, they are taxed more lightly than other lands
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In Silesia, lands held by a noble tenure are taxed three per cent
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The honours and privileges of different kinds annexed to the former, his Prussian majesty had probably imagined, would sufficiently compensate to the proprietor a small aggravation of the tax; while, at the same time, the humiliating inferiority of the latter would be in some measure alleviated, by being taxed somewhat more lightly
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Two districts, for example, one of which ought, in the actual state of things, to be taxed at nine hundred, the other at eleven hundred livres, are, by the old assessment, both taxed at a thousand livres
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A tax upon them would fall altogether upon the proprietor, who would thus be taxed for a subject which afforded him neither conveniency nor revenue
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Nothing can be more reasonable, than that a fund, which owes its existence to the good government of the state, should be taxed peculiarly, or should contribute something more than the greater part of other funds, towards the support of that government
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In Great Britain the rent of houses is supposed to be taxed in the same proportion as the rent of land, by what is called the annual land tax
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} every house is taxed at two and a-half per cent
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If he was taxed directly, therefore, in
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The interest of money seems, at first sight, a subject equally capable of being taxed directly as the rent of land
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At first sight, therefore, the interest of money seems to be a subject as fit to be taxed directly as the rent of land
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By what is called the land tax in England, it was intended that the stock should be taxed in the same proportion as land
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When the tax upon land was at four shillings in the pound, or at one-fifth of the supposed rent, it was intended that stock should be taxed at one-fifth of the supposed interest
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Every hundred pounds stock, accordingly, was supposed to be taxed at twenty-four shillings, the fifth part of six pounds
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every hundred pounds stock is supposed to be taxed at twenty shillings only
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What remained to be assessed upon the stock or trade of the towns (for the stock upon the land was not meant to be taxed) was very much below the real value of that stock or trade
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Upon such occasions the people assemble, and every one is said to declare with the greatest frankness what he is worth, in order to be taxed accordingly
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At Zurich, the law orders, that in cases of necessity, every one should be taxed in proportion to his revenue; the amount of which he is obliged to declare upon oath
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If any person has been taxed who ought to have been exempted, or if any person has been taxed beyond his proportion, though both must pay in the mean time, yet if they complain, and make good their complaints, the whole parish is reimposed next year, in order to reimburse them
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Nobody will lend his money for less interest to those who exercise the taxed, than to those who exercise the untaxed employments
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Such transactions, therefore, may be taxed directly
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It cannot easily, therefore, be taxed directly
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It has been taxed indirectly in two different ways; first, by requiring that the deed, containing the obligation to repay, should be written upon paper or parchment which had paid a certain stamp duty, otherwise not to be valid ; secondly, by requiring, under the like penalty of invalidity, that it should be recorded either in a public or secret register, and by imposing certain duties upon such registration
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Stamp duties, and duties of registration, have frequently been imposed likewise upon the deeds transferring property of all kinds from the dead to the living, and upon those transferring immoveable property from the living to the living ; transactions which might easily have been taxed directly
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} Collateral successions are taxed according to the degree of relation, from five to thirty per cent
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Such transactions may be taxed indirectly, by means either of stamp duties, or of duties upon registration; and those duties either may, or may not, be proportioned to the value of the subject which is transferred
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The second class are taxed at seventy ; the third at fifty ; and the fourth, comprehending artificers in villages, and the lowest class of those in towns, at twenty-five florins
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The emoluments of offices, therefore, can, in most cases, very well bear to be taxed
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Their expense is taxed, by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is laid out
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The rise in the price of the taxed
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Though it is taxed in England at three times, and in France at fifteen times its original price, those high duties seem to have no effect upon the wages of labour
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Taxes upon luxuries have no tendency to raise the price of any other commodities, except that of the commodities taxed
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Taxes upon luxuries are finally paid by the consumers of the commodities taxed, without any retribution
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It was taxed among the Romans, and it is so at present in, I believe, every part of Europe
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It is in England taxed at three shillings and fourpence a bushel; about three times the original price of the commodity
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Leather and soap are in Great Britain taxed at three halfpence a-pound; candles at a penny; taxes which, upon the original price of leather, may amount to about eight or ten per cent
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It might be taxed, once for all, before it comes out of the hands of the coach-maker
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It was the well-known proposal of Sir Matthew Decker, that all commodities, even those of which the consumption is either immediate or speedy, should be taxed in this manner; the dealer advancing nothing, but the consumer paying a certain annual sum for the licence to consume certain goods
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But if the tax were to be paid by purchasing a licence to drink those liquors, the sober would, in proportion to his consumption, be taxed much more heavily than the drunken consumer
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A family which exercised great hospitality, would be taxed much more lightly than one who entertained fewer guests
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In several countries, however, commodities of an immediate or very speedy consumption are taxed in this manner
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If any goods are imported, not mentioned in the book of rates, they are taxed at 4s:9¾d
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that every single article of that expense should be taxed
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The trade in the commodities not taxed, by far the greatest number would be perfectly free, and might be carried on to and from all parts of the world with every possible advantage
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Even the trade in the commodities taxed, would be carried on with much more advantage than at present
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Under the same taxes, the foreign trade of consumption, even in the taxed commodities, might in this manner be carried on with much more advantage than it is at present
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Such tolls, no doubt, are finally paid by the consumer; but the consumer is not taxed in proportion to his expense, when he pays, not according to the value, but according to the bulk or weight of what he consumes
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It might, perhaps, be a little difficult to ascertain either what sort, or what degree of absence, would subject a man to be taxed as an absentee, or at what precise time the tax should either begin or end
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If you except, however, this very peculiar situation, any inequality in the contribution of individuals which can arise from such taxes, is much more than compensated by the very circumstance which occasions that inequality; the circumstance that every man's contribution is altogether voluntary ; it being altogether in his power, either to consume, or not to consume, the commodity taxed
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All taxes upon consumable commodities, therefore, tend to reduce the quantity of productive labour below what it otherwise would be, either in preparing the commodities taxed, if they are home commodities, or in preparing those with which they are purchased, if they are foreign commodities
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Fourthly, such taxes, by subjecting at least the dealers in the taxed commodities, to the frequent visits and odious examination of the tax-gatherers, expose them sometimes, no doubt, to some degree of oppression, and always to much trouble and vexation; and though vexation, as has already been said, is not strictly speaking expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it
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merchant-manufacturer were taxed, equality seemed to require that those of all the middle buyers, who intervened between either of them and the consumer, should likewise be taxed
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A tax is sometimes not only farmed for a certain rent, but the farmer has, besides, the monopoly of the commodity taxed
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The revenue of the States-General and of the different cities, however, is said to amount to more than five millions two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling ; and as the inhabitants of the United Provinces cannot well be supposed to amount to more than a third part of those of Great Britain, they must, in proportion to their number, be much more heavily taxed
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equality, it was thought necessary to lay a tax upon this liquor, it might be taxed by taxing the material of which it is made, either at the place of manufacture, or, if the circumstances of the trade rendered such an excise improper, by laying a duty upon its importation into the colony in which it was to be consumed
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If a union with the colonies were to take place, those commodities might be taxed, either before they go out of the hands of the manufacturer or grower ; or, if this mode of taxation did not suit the circumstances of those persons, they might be deposited in public warehouses, both at the place of manufacture, and at all the different ports of the empire, to which they might afterwards be transported, to remain there, under the joint custody of the owner and the revenue officer, till such time as they should be delivered out, either to the consumer, to the merchant-retailer for home consumption, or to the merchant-exporter; the tax not to be advanced till such delivery
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The duties upon the distillery, and the greater part of the duties of customs, in proportion to the numbers of people in the respective countries, produce less in Scotland than in England, not only on account of the smaller consumption of the taxed commodities, but of the much greater facility of smuggling
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In Ireland, therefore, the consumption of the taxed commodities might, in proportion to the number of the people, be still less than in Scotland, and the facility of smuggling nearly the same
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The consumption of the taxed commodities, therefore, in proportion to the number of inhabitants, would probably be as great in America and the West Indies as in any part of the British empire
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Taxpayers should not be blind-sided after the fact; that is to say, forced to pay taxes on what basically amounts to paying taxes on taxed income that has already been spent or planned on being spent, perhaps, but provided ample opportunity to properly assess (beforehand) the impact prospective tax increases, or tax reductions, for that matter, will have on their household budgets
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These taxes include, however are not limited to, consumer taxes, school and property taxes, ―sin‖ taxes, egregious taxes on inheritance or the ―death tax‖ and capital gains taxes whose earnings are taxed twice, no less
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(I can visualize our police surreptitiously glancing along our sidewalks at night with tape measures of their own!) Why does it always seem to fall on the shoulders of hard working, over taxed (law-abiding) citizens to defray the costs of profligate spending by our municipalities that, despite increasing revenue, are invariably under-funded
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Her patience taxed, the nurse tried again, adding gesture
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Within a few moments the local Scottish SAS were notified that a terrorist incident had taken place in Edinburgh and members of the counter revolutionary warfare wing (CRW) were taxed with ‘999’ telling them that a real incident had taken place and that this was no exercise
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Most of us breakers had taxed and stressed looks on our faces when we were breakin’, but not Isaac; he was as cool as a cucumber
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It seemed that they were there to make sure everyone was searched and all trade goods were taxed
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The land sold could then be taxed by the states and generate income for them
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if widowed or single) a portion of their Social Security income is taxed! It doesn’t matter how many years you have paid into Social
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way it can be taxed is if the last Kennedy standing cashes it in—but why would the last Kennedy want to do that? The Trust fund is
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I forgot about sleep and taxed myself to the limit
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Also in that moment Judah's horse, now suddenly taxed with the
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Specifically, that lesson is that the less the people are taxed, the more the economy grows
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Today his years of training were being taxed to the extreme
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The Nighthawk had spent a lot of fuel and taxed its engines heavily; as a result, they couldn't do as deep of a jump as Calvin wanted
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'fat cats' will be taxed harder and their money given away to the masses
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If gratuity is part of the taxed bill, the cost will be more
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Today, the citizens of the great powers are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their sovereignty as regards international affairs into the hands of global government
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Again and again she felt herself lifted lightly off her feet and over some obstacle that would have taxed her strength to surmount, and her wonder grew at the sheer physical power of the man
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So, as Peter left them to go toward the boat, Jesus remarked, half-humorously: "Strange that the sons of the king must pay tribute; usually it is the stranger who is taxed for the upkeep of the court, but it behooves us to afford no stumbling block for the authorities
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Arrow straight, the tunnel led up into a backbreaking climb that taxed the horses so we walked beside them and it made our calves ache and my breathing falter
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The life support systems, especially, had been taxed during the trip
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The lasers taxed even the larger reactors when they were all firing, but even under full load, the ships could make the short hyper jump without damaging the reactors
