taxation

• In November 1778 Sinclair wanted Smith to send him to Thurso Castle the loan of the important French book on contemporary systems of taxation, which is so often quoted in the Wealth of Nations —the Memoires concernant les Impositions —and of which only 100 copies were originally printed, and only four apparently found their way to this country. —  Life of Adam Smith
• He had therefore always wished that the income derived from customs and indirect taxation should be increased so as by degrees to do away with the necessity for direct taxation, and if this could be done, then, instead of the States paying an annual contribution to the Empire, they would receive from the central Government pecuniary assistance. —  Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
• Much has been said about the glorious result of the war; but has not lavish expenditure loaded us with taxation which is impoverishing the people and annihilating commerce? —  The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc.
• He says that the trucking industry, which consumes just over 7 billion litres of diesel fuel per year to power its fleet of tractor trailers, is currently paying over $280 million a year in federal excise tax on diesel fuel - a form of taxation which is archaic and regressive and should have been repealed or reformed years ago. —  Steve Janke: Angry in the Great White North
• Governor Palin clearly does not believe in punitive taxation, which is what the DailyKos and the media are trying to insinuate. —  American Thinker

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