Читать книгу An Essay on the State of England. In Relation to Its Trade, Its Poor, and Its Taxes, for Carrying on the Present War Against France онлайн

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The Foundations of the Wealth of this Kingdom are, Land, Manufactures, and Foreign Trade, these are its Pillars, which ought not to be overshaken, they have hitherto borne the Burthen,and felt the Smart of the War, and 'tis time now they should slide their Necks out of the Collar,other ways may be found out to raise a greater Summ annually than Your Majesty's Occasionswill require, without Four Shillings per Pound on the first, Excises on the second, or a TunnageBill on Ships on the last, an Act which lighted heavy on the Merchant, and left no room toconsider whither he gained or lost by the Voyage, or whither the Ship returned home full orempty.

The Methods for Raising Money must be easie, when the annual necessary Summs are to be so great, therefore it would be Policy in our Law-makers to make use of those which may leasthurt any part of our Vitals, such as Land and Trade are; I mean that part of Trade which isuseful to the Publick God, not that which is managed only for private Men's Advantage; it maybe possible to rate the Trader, and yet to spare the Trade.