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1829 June 6
Petitions

Supplement
(7) II. Elucidations
§.6. Danish Reconciliation

40.
Tax on medicine worse
than tax on bread

2. A tax on medicine is in specie and in possibility
worse than a tax upon bread. Why? Because a tax imposed by while
in the instance of a certain individual, which by a tax to a certain amount on bread to a certain amount
say 6d a year would not be destroyed, forasmuch as he might for
and during the length of time necessary to the providing of the money produce
this effect for abstaining from by betaking himself to cheaper food, or
by abstaining altogether from a quantity of bread of which that 6d
proved the price. Yet if at the moment, by a tax of 6d, a quantity
of medicine necessary to the preservation of his life was rendered unobtainable
by him, here is death produced by the tax on medicine
which nothing but a comparatively slight or
say uneasiness is produced by a tax to the same amount on bread (a)

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Tax on justice worse
than tax on medicine

3. A tax upon justice is worse than a tax upon medicine
Why? Because institutions there are institutions, abound every where, by which
the relief is afforded to the pressure of the tax upon individuals,
whereas no such institution has place in relation to the taxes
upon justice.

Note (a)

Such is the case where the two species of taxes are compared with
one another specie with specie. The reason why the tax on medicine as
actually imposed is not perhaps more maleficent
than a tax if so maleficent as the smallest was a one that would be imposed on bread would be is — that
the aggregate quantity of the drug used in medicine is so small, while at
the same time the quantity of money paid by whatever contributive act
applied to the purpose of affording relief to the sick in the way of charity is
relatively
relatively so great, that
the case of an individual
dying for the mere want of
a quantity of medicine which
has been put out of his reach
by a tax on medicine, is
probably in comparison but rare: more so than the case of individuals deprived of life by starvation, produced by the the fluctuation in the price of bread.?

Identifier: | JB/081/270/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-06-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	40-41
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	270	Info in main headings field	petitions
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	26057
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