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12 Sept 1801

2. Remedies False
7. Taxation

left for him to choose out of. One is to consume
less of the article itself nearly taxed:
another is to consume less of other things: and
to reduce his consumption to consume less partly of that, and partly of other
things. Tax any consumable article, you a
necessary effect is the diminution upon the consumption
of all consumable articles taken together;
and a probable one is the a more particular diminution upon
the consumption of that sort of article in particular.

In the age instance of the species of taxation here
in question, the case is altogether different .

You diminish the aggregate of his entire
consumption, because inasmuch as in consequence
of the tax the price of that aggregate
is greater than it was before, if men consume
as much after the tax as before without encrease reducing
the consumption part their expenditure in proportion at the expence
of the production part of their expenditure, they
must in consequence of the tax have as much
put into their pockets as the amount of the tax
takes out of them and: and the tax has no tendency
to put into their pockets a single farthing.

In the instance of the species of
taxation here in question the case is altogether
different. Thereby is nothing of contemplation
in the case. In the vase of a tax on consumption,
the effect of the tax is the tax reduces the quantity which it
is

you diminish the
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Identifier: | JB/116/321/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	9a
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	321	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	002	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b9
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37854
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