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An Expostition of Evidence in Support of the Memorial to Congress "setting Forth the Evils of the Existing Tariff of Duties"
An Expostition of Evidence in Support of the Memorial to Congress setting Forth the Evils of the Existing Tariff of Duties Author:Henry Lee General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Original Publisher: Printed at the Boston press Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com w... more »here you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: No. 6. AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES OF THE FAL. L, OF PRICES, We have endeavored, in the foregoing discussion, to show by facts which are within the reach of every one, the oppressiveness of the existing system with regard to one of its effects; namely, pecuniary taxation. In doing this, we have confined ourselves to a few of the leading articles of consumption. It would occupy too much time and space to analyze the whole list of dutied articles, and estimate the burthen which each tax imposes upon the nation. Having done this with regard to some of the most prominent, such as woollens and cottons, sugar and iron, the reader can apply the same rules to other high dutied articles of import, such as linens of various sorts, salt, molasses, crockery ware, glass ware, window glass, hard ware, tin plates, slate, coal, wool, cordage, indigo, paper, books and stationary, spirits, oil, wines, fruits, and many others, comprising most of the necessaries, comforts, and conveniences of life. From the indirect mode in which these duties operate on consumers, a vast majority are insensible to the large sums which are monthly, daily and hourly taken from them in the increased prices which they pay for their clothing, food, furniture, and working utensils of every sort. Nothing, however, can be more certain than that the consumers of the articles enumerated, and of many others, not enumerated, pay just so much additional price for them, as the amount of duties actually levied upon them at the Custom House. And here we will notice a distinction between duties for reve...« less