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 Here it is assumed Post Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:28:44 +0000
Sometimes a petitio principii is denoted by a single word. Thus : we may be told that a banker ought not to speculate in the funds. Here it is assumed that an investment in the funds is a speculation.

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1. - These, however, are times Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:29:10 +0000
For the average man, government and taxation are merely abstract names, and of little interest except in their personal application to him through what he desires or fears from them. These, however, are times of unrest and apprehension, states of mind veneered, it is true, in the United States by the present activity in business, yet but thinly veneered and at that only for a portion of the people ; and as a consequence of such unrest and apprehension, eyes and minds are now turned to govern- ment, and to a solvent government's strongest arm, taxation, with a ner- vousness and fervor but little abated from the high-pitch climax reached in the last and worst of our great panics.

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2. - An almost inappreciable side Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:15:11 +0000
There are derisive voices which cite this looking to government as lamentable evidence of "long slide toward both paternalism and maternalism" by a nation "once inde- pendent as well as free." But the rustic who, in ancient fable, sat down by river's side waiting to cross until all the water should run by, was not more foolish than he who in these days expects by jeering to dry up, or turn into other channels, currents flowing from deep-seated feeling in the people. An almost inappreciable side or line movement of a great gun, once it is approximately aimed at object within range, determines whether the shell it bears shall explode in the right place or hurtle harmlessly by.

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3. - Or to put it Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:56:55 +0000
Only he or they in close touch with the machinery can give to the huge cannon its correct side or line movement: so also only he and they who bring to the people's cause the right knowledge and the right sympathetic touch may fairly hope to impress on popular movements directions slight in themselves, yet decisive of whether the goal shall be squarely reached or just missed; decisive, too, of whether the -goal shall be quickly and economically reached, or only after tedious delay and tremendous ex- penditure sometimes not of treasure alone, but of treasure and blood. There is an inner correspondence between government, any govern- ment as we understand the word, and its system of taxation. Or to put it in another way, taxation is the book-keeper of government, and its ledger truly mirrors the wisdom or folly, the mingled folly and wisdom, of gov- ernment.

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4. - I set forth and analyze Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:39:04 +0000
Economists and others have multitudinously and variously de- fined taxes; judges have based important conclusions on nice distinctions as to what is and what is not a "tax." These definitions and distinctions curiously reflect, in so far as they attempt precision, the ultimate politi- cal tenets of their makers. I set forth and analyze some of these defir"' tions in the introductory chapter of this book.

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5. - Johnson in his dic- tionary Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:22:38 +0000
Occasionally a definition racily reflects the maker's pet aversion. Thus Dr. Johnson in his dic- tionary defines the "excise," which with us goes by the name of internal- revenue tax, as a "hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

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6. - It would seem Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:07:44 +0000
" Readers of Rousseau will remember the striking pass- age in his Confessions (Part I, Book IV), wherein he tells of losing his way, and asking for dinner at a French peasant's cottage. This was in 1732, and in that year of grace and of the Old Regime, the peasant offered his unbidden guest skim milk and coarse barley bread, saying it was all he had. It would seem from an expression used by Rousseau that straw, ground, chopped or otherwise, was mingled with the barley meal in making such bread.

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7. - So, open- ing a little Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:50:27 +0000
At any rate he fell to with the appetite of a tired and hungry foot-traveler (for so he was), and ate of the barley bread, "straw and all." The peasant judged from this that the stranger was not shamming hunger, nor visiting his hut for any sinister purpose. So, open- ing a little trap-door beside the kitchen, he made a dive, and brought forth a pure wheaten loaf, an appetizing ham and a bottle of wine.

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8. - " When Rousseau offered pay Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:33:35 +0000
To this spread he contrived soon to join a "tolerably thick omelette." And young Rousseau made a dinner "such as only a pedestrian ever knew." When Rousseau offered pay, the peasant refused his money in great perturbation.

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9. - Aides and tattle were two Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:17:51 +0000
Just out of Switzerland where things were different, Rous- seau could not imagine the ground of his host's fear. At last the peas- ant, shuddering, uttered the terrible words "clerks, cellar-rats," meaning the tax-farmer's minions who went nosing about to collect an "aid" on each bottle of wine and a faille (literally chop or cut) on each loaf of bread. Aides and tattle were two of the twenty-odd taxes that used to be collected in France under the Old Regime.

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10. - It was the germ Post Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:01:43 +0000
The peasant explaining why he hid his bread and wine, said he would be a lost man, if anybody suspected "he was not dying of hunger." "I had not the least idea of all this," adds Rousseau; "and what he said made an impression that will never be effaced. It was the germ of that inextinguishable hatred which afterwards grew in my heart for the vexations which beset the unhappy people, and for the oppressers who inflict them.

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