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6 Nov. 1800
Paper Mischief
The notes are issued – they are distributed in payment
of the goods meant to be engrossed, they are distributed
among the Farmers or Manufacturers by whom they
were produced – they are the goods are got up
into the confederated of hands – the price to
the consumer or under under dealer retail dealer is raised
in consequence according to the discretion of the confederates
– the money is received, the original first hand
price replaced in the shape of notes issued as above
or in the shape of cash and the profit protected – and immediately
with the addition of such profit the Banking
house is in readiness for another cash adventure
on a still more extended scale.
Here then comes a tax upon a tax: 1. the
general tax upon unimmediate seen by the de-
the tax by the creation of the money, and
the tax by the application of it: the tax upon
non-commercial men in general particular by the
reduction in the value of their incomes: – and the
tax upon persons in general the community in respect of the
part they each person may happen to take in the consumption
of the particular sorts of goods engrossed thus made taken for the
subject matter of the plan of operation.
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