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Pan opt. Contract Plan. Smith
"upon the prosperity of his people, and he will
"never knowingly ruin that prosperity for the sake
"of any momentary interest of is own. It is otherwise
"with the farmers of his revenue, whose grandeur
"may frequently be the effect of the ruin, and
"not of the prosperity of his people." – Again Still Once more the
East India argument slipped out of its place.
Two things are here insinuated – that the
as far as concerns the enforcement of a tax whoever farms it tax becomes ipso facto
master of the legislature, and capable of having
what laws do made he pleases: 2. that the
laws he causes to be made are mere prejudice
pernicious and more so than had it not been
for him would have been enacted by the sovereign
legislature of itself. If the former proposition
be true Those who form farm turnpike-taxes,
and those who farm post-horse-taxes in Great Britain, are
masters of the legislature of Great Britain. This
he must maintain: for his censure of contract management
in public concerns is general and makes no distinctions.
The other proposition is more compleatly ill-founded.
It assumes that the interest of the farmer with regard to in the
collection of the tax is opposite to that of the subject,
whereas
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