If we expect that the State distributes abundance everywhere, it is necessary to allow it to collect taxes everywhere.
Category: Taxes
UNDER THE REPUBLIC – VII
We believe that there should not be an attempt to amend the octroi but to repeal it.
TO THE EDITOR OF LE NATIONAL – II
There is no want of an example of a people who would have paid to be oppressed, from whom money has been snatched in order to bereave its freedom.
TO M. TANNEGUY DUCHATEL, INTERIOR MINISTER
The nation should pay taxes only in order to face up to public services.
18. DEUXIEME ARTICLE
Enfin le service, simplifié dans une proportion incalculable, permettra certainement de notables économies.
SECOND ARTICLE
The service eventually, which would be simplified to an incommensurable extent, will certainly allow for notable savings.
16. A M. LE REDACTEUR DU COURRIER FRANCAIS
La douane n’est pas seulement un instrument fiscal, elle doit être encore et surtout un moyen de protéger l’industrie.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURRIER FRANCAIS
Tariffs are not only a mean of taxation, they should also and mainly be a mean of protecting industry.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
If the tax were collected this way you would not tolerate it, however, this is what the lord is doing in a different guise.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Making Great-Britain independent from the rest of the world requires to make the world independent from Great-Britain.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
The question is whether legislative power and political influence is to remain with the predators or with the working man.
TAX ON SALT
In order to vote in favour of reducing such taxes, it is necessary to start by not voting constantly in favour of more government spending.
TWO WAYS OF LEVELLING OUT TAXES
Levelling out through taxes is way more dangerous than levelling out through free-trade.
XL. DEUX MODES D’EGALISATIONS DE TAXES
L’égalisation par l’impôt est beaucoup plus dangereuse que celle de l’égalisation par le libre-échange.
THE UNIQUE TAX IN ENGLAND
Eventually, there is more good than bad to expect from the substitution of what is just for what is not.
A STRANGE ECONOMIC PHENOMENON
It occurred to them that one might increase the revenues by reducing taxes, which is an idea that seems to imply a shocking contradiction.
XIX. LE NATIONAL
Ce que nous attaquons dans la douane, ce n’est pas la pensée fiscale, mais la pensée féodale.
LE NATIONAL
What we are fighting against about the customs is not the idea of tax but the idea of feudality.
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DISTRICT OF SAINT-SEVER
Does the French nation want to be forever in tutelage and to call on its government to intervene in every matter?
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
As you would have seen, the minister could not find anything better than creating four new contributions on beverages in order to cover the deficit created by our policies.
LETTRES A M. FELIX COUDROY
Ainsi que tu l’auras vu, le ministre ne trouve rien de mieux, pour combler le déficit qu’a occasionné notre politique, que de frapper les boissons de quatre nouvelles contributions.
PEACE AND FREEDOM
The preconceived idea is and always will be the scourge of reason since, by its very nature, it flees the truth when it has the misfortune of glimpsing it.
PEACE AND FREEDOM
They should not expect the state to provide for them since they are the ones that provide for the state.
JUSTICE AND FRATERNITY
New demands from the public, new taxes from the state, and we can go only from one revolution to the next.
10. ALGERIA.
However, I cannot refrain from making a general observation. Presumption is always unfavorable to collective expenditure carried out through taxes.
24. – DISASTROUS ILLUSIONS.
When you claim the merit for all the good that occurs, you incur responsibility for all the harm that arises.
23. – CIRCULARS FROM A GOVERNMENT THAT IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.
Obviously any civil servant who does not do a useful job does a damaging one by the very fact of taking action.
22. – A DISASTROUS REMEDY.
However, it is not the goodness of the intention that makes the goodness of the medicine.
21. – THE IMMEDIATE RELIEF OF THE PEOPLE.
People, how can the state keep you alive, since it is you who are keeping the state alive?
19. – ANTEDILUVIAN SUGAR.
But when we have gone down the wrong road for so long, it is childish to refuse to join the right road because it will cause some discomfort.
XII. – SALT, THE MAIL, AND THE CUSTOMS SERVICE.
The affections, feelings, and outpourings of love and friendship will not, as they are today, be buried in the depths of people’s hearts by the hand of the tax man.
XI. – THE UTOPIAN.
Oh yes! You are reducing revenue without reducing expenditure and you will avoid a deficit?
X. – THE TAX COLLECTOR.
The Chamber has understood that if this continued M. D . . . would face the choice of either having to operate his factory better or closing it.
IX. – IMMENSE DÉCOUVERTE!!!
Franchement, n’y-a-t-il pas quelque chose d’humiliant pour le dix-neuvième siècle d’apprêter aux âges futurs le spectacle de pareilles puérilités pratiquées avec un sérieux imperturbable?
IX. – AN IMMENSE DISCOVERY.
Frankly, is it not somewhat humiliating for the nineteenth century to prepare a spectacle of childishness such as this for future ages with such imperturbable seriousness?
V – NOS PRODUITS SONT GREVÉS DE TAXES.
Je voudrais bien qu’on me dît à quoi serviraient les grandes armées permanentes et les puissantes marines militaires, si le commerce était libre…
V. – OUR PRODUCTS ARE WEIGHED DOWN WITH TAXES.
I would like to be told what the great standing armies and the powerful navies would be used for if trade were free.