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Punishment distinguished & defined.

in the endeavour to obtain money, or to obtain services
beneficial to either a person or a community may be stiled
a burthen; or if that be not strictly proper, he who produces
pain in that endeavour, may be said to impose
a burthen. If money then a pecuniary burthen, a tax:
if services, than an official burthen, a duty.

16.

Difference between
Tax, and aa Punishment. To pay money without receiving in in some shape or other
what is deemed the worth of it, is what, as every body
knows, produces pain. To impose a Tax is to issue a
command (which being backed by other pain has the
effect of compulsion) to pay money. Any Act the effect
of which is to contribute to the benefit of a party (whether
an individual or a community) other than the agent
himself, may with respect to such party be stiled an
act of service; or, in one word, a Service. To perform a
service without receiving in some shape or other what
is deemed the worth of it, (a) is what as every body knows produces
—

Note.

(a) I say in some shape or other, whether by Money or by other means

Identifier: | JB/159/031/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	9-16
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field	punishment distinguished & defined
Image	004	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53854
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