Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
DAVID RICARDOIf the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
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Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
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If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
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The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.
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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
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If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.
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A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.
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Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.
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If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
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Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.
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Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
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Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
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Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.
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There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
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The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.
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