...rules of equitable taxation, as follows : 1. " The subjects of every state ouglit to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible,...the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the prohztion of the state. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not...

...from the author of "Wealth of Nations" the following, among other maxims, relating to taxation : "1. That the subjects of every State ought to contribute...government as nearly as possible in proportion to the revenue "\'hich they respectively enjoy under its protection." Judge Cooley observes, p. 8: "Of...

...Smith's leading maxim of taxation: 'The subjects of any Si&te ought to contribute towards tie rapport of the Government as nearly as possible in proportion...; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they rapactively enjoy under the protection of the State.' But it may k objected that, practically speaking,...

...the four maxims which John Stuart Mill says "have become classic." These maxims are as follows: 1. "The subjects of every state ought to contribute to the support of tr1e government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion...

...we cut away all after the first clause : " The subjects of every . state ought to contribute towards the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities." The maxim as it stands is unexceptionable, but does not shed much light on the difficult question of...

...unnecessary burdens.1 Taxation should be equal ; by which is meant that the subjects should contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.2 Equality of taxation is not attained by taxing all alike irrespective of their condition....

...— when he laid down his old dictum, that " the subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities." CHAPTER IV. THE HIGHER LAW OF PROPERTY IN ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATION. A GLANCE AT THE MEANS NECESSARY...

...in his Wealth of Nations is the following : "The subjects of every State ought to contribute toward the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their several abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection...

...said to have become classical, and this chapter cannot be better commenced than by quoting them.* "1. The subjects of every state ought to contribute to the support of t he government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities : that is, in proportion...

...of equitable taxation, as follows : 1. " The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward (he support of the government, as nearly as possible,...the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the pri'tution of the state. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not...