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have of them, the more liberty. The What you pay Instead of justice
the baker for your roll It if the people are satisfied take the article of bread, and put to make a beginning
with this, try them with a tax of 50,000 put a tax of 25,200 per cent upon it.
per cent upon bread. The price of bread is the a roll is what
money you give for it to a baker: when you
paid but gave a penny for your roll it was worth but a
penny: now you now you pay a guinea for it, it is cond
it will be is worth a guinea: — what be man in his senses
would wish to have bread untaxed? eat his bread at a less price? — I speak as if a
pennyworth of justice were to be had in England
for a guinea: for I hate and dread exaggeration:
but the truth is, as the reader has seen, that it
is to be had at no such price.
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jeremy bentham |
floyd & co |
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arthur young |
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