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Contract
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Terrified by imaginary mischief men fall
into real ones. Observe what the honourable historian
gets by his antipathy to farming. Another
succedaneum is proposed – what is it? a poll-taxes
upon post-horses. The Minister's tax is
perfectly equal and falls upon as intended
upon the consumer: upon the man of wealth and
luxury: the man of industry. The Censure is unequal and falls upon
the trader: upon the man of industry, and with equal weight however well
or however ill able to bear it. One man has an
flow of good old established business and constant work for his horses.
Another is just set up in business, and has
but half employment for them. – They pay
the same. It say it again. It is upon the trader I say, that it falls. It falls, I say, upon the trader:
I mean at least does it upon him at any rate it falls upon some traders, and who are they? Who can
least afford it. Can the man who has but half
employment for his horses charge more for them
than he who has full employment? so sure as
he does, so sure will he have none no employment at all. Or
to make sure work to be on the sure side will the traders contrive
amongst themselves to charge upon the consumer
as they none of them had more than half employment
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panopticon; rationale of reward |
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jeremy bentham |
floyd & co |
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arthur young |
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