The Radical Programme - Softcover

Chamberlain, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 1230217975 ISBN 13: 9781230217970

Verlag: TheClassics.us, 2013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... dition of retrenchment is, that instead of vague charges of extravagance and inefficiency, as a rule "unsupported by evidence, we should have fuller and clearer information as to the constitution of the various departments, and the possibility of reorganisation with a view to economy. Aversion of These being the chief historical features of our people to · old system, financial code, a general aversion to all schemes of Aims of the ° new policy. raising or expending revenue is a natural result. It is the inevitable consequence of a system of Government under which the taxpayers are only partially represented. But when the Government is brought into full accord with the whole nation there ought to be no reason why taxation, based on sound principles for the advantage of the entire community, should not be just as popular with the people at large as it has hitherto been with the minority who have almost exclusively benefited by it. The aim of the future will be to reverse the principle which has held sway in the past; to rectify the incidence of the levies for the relief of industry; to reform the methods of collection; to enlarge and multiply the channels of appropriation; to investigate the cost of administration in the three chief services, and to reduce their expenditure to the extreme limit consistent with economy and efficiency in the business of the State. No plea is put forward for the exemption of any Ah classes should be class from a fair contribution to the cost of Govern- taxed, ment. Everyone who is able should subscribe something, and, as far as possible, should know what the amount is. For this reason direct taxes are preferable to indirect taxes. Besides, there can be no better check on the extravagance of...

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• Verlag: TheClassics.us
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1230217975
• ISBN 13: 9781230217970
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 68