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Contract 7
Still argument against fact. The argument is very nicely put together: but the
basis of it is a fact circumstance wh quite accidental to the system
which it combats. What obliges you to
farm a tax in the lump? Who ever thought of
farming to the same person the produce of the
turnpike taxes or the produce of the post-horse
tax throughout Great Britain? As to what is said joining instead
of bidding, there may be cases one may conceive a case in w there may perhaps have been
cases in which it has been true: but had the our Dr
author calculated what the difference of in the rate of
profit must be to make a half share more
valuable than the whole?
Another argument in which the truth of the matter
of fact is very dubious perhaps not true, and which at a if it were would
not be chargeable upon the farming system.
The Farmers of the publick revenue never
find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt
to evade the payment of a tax. They have no bowels
for the contributors who are not their subjects
and whose universal bankruptcy if it should
happen the day after their farm is expired, would
not much affect their interest. What signifies Bowels or no
bowels what signifies it whether they have bowels or no. The contributors
are not their subjects: no: no the law mo
the
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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arthur young |
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