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Our object is to show that, upon their own principles, in bo far as they have furnished us with them, they are utterly ignorant of the true principles upbn which an imposition and reduction of taxes should be regulated.303、the foregoing gewo. Tory Burch Outlet ral statements, we shall consider some of the instaneee given,and inferences' deduced^ 'by Sir Henry Parneli, inrhi*4tb efanp., entitled'■"'Tftnrts ott t^rturies."/ • Under this bead* Sir Hency includes our whole Customs and Excise duties, (amounting,'ashe statai| » 1«?J>tO< — ............JLi3&038,116Under deduttenKJf'what he calls duties on ma* •terials, manufactures, &c. L. 8,800,000Leaving L. 27,500,000u Nearly all," he observes, " levied on articles of luxury, and paid by the wealthier classes; anal were it-oof that aotne of these duties hare been mised much too high, there would be no necessity for making any remarks on this branch of taxes. As the effect of these very high duties b in some cases to diminish the revenue, arid in all cases to create smuggling, and further, by greatly diminishing the importation of theartides oo which they fall, to didiinilh the demand for, and exportation of, our Burberry Sale own manufactures,—these duties are exceedingly injurious, and ought to be reduced." . i* From what lias been said, the reader will readily perceive, that the evils here described are inseparable from any systm* of taxation whatever. If an incflesse of revenue were to be made an argument for changing taxes, our legislature would Burberry Outlet have little else to do; and as to smuggling, the reel cure for it, is a good and efficient police, and good excise laws.* As an example of the effect of excessive duties, Sir Henry instances the duties on brandy and geneva, the consumption of which, on an average of the four years to 1807, was 1,820,000 gallons, and the duty being 14s., the revenue was L. Burberry Outlet1,370*000; while Tory Burch Outlet on an average of tbe four years following 1814, when the duty was raised to 18s. lOd. (W. M.) at which it now is, the consumption was 742.000 gallons, and the revenue L. 825,000; to that the revenue was lesBurberry Sale
Tory Burch Outlets from a duty of 18s. 10d., by L. 546,000 w-year, than it was from a duty of 14s.