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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By not importing things manufactur'd.3. By discouraging the Importation of Commodities already manufactured either from our ownPlantations or other Places, such as clay'd and refined Sugars, wrought Silks, Calicoes, Brandy,Glass, Earthen Ware, Irish Frizes, Tann'd Leather, Gloves, Lace, &c. and instead thereof weshould encourage bringing in the Materials whereof they are made, to be wrought up here; thismay be done by Laws, and also by being in love with our Home Manufactures, and bringingtheir Wearing into Fashion.

By freeing the Manufactures from Excises.4. By freeing the Manufactures from burthensome Excises, which do much discourage smallStocks, who are not able to carry on their Trades and make Provision for such great Payments;the Distillers have long groaned under them, and I fear the Glass-makers now will, especiallythose in and about London, who have another load by the Duty of Coals, besides the Swarms ofOfficers to which we lay open the Houses of those Men who deserve all the Encouragement wecan give them, and ought to have things made as easie to them as may be; had the like Methodsbeen used to our Wollen and Leather (as was intended) we might have repented it at Leisure;Taxes when laid on our Manufactures ought to be raised by such easie Methods as shall giveleast trouble to the Makers: Trade ought to be handled gently, and he that considers theExpences of this Nation at Five Pounds per Head comes to Forty Millions, and the Lands ofEngland but to Twelve, will imagine easie Methods may be found out to raise a greater Taxannually then we pay, without loading either Land or Trade as now we do, a Scheme whereofmay be easily drawn up.