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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63456	Taxes no charge in a letter from a gentleman, to a person of quality, shewing the nature, use, and benefit of taxes in this kingdom, and compared with the impositions of foreign states : together with their improvement of trade in time of war.	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1690 (1690)	Wing T258; ESTC R18037	23,116	38

King sends the Parliament word t●at he will have so much Money and all the favour that they can obtain from him is to place it on such Commoditi●s or way● as they think most expedient And 't is not unworthy observation to remark T●at these Parliaments of France are in eff●ct no more than Courts of Iudicature in Matters of Right betwixt man and man hearing and judging Causes and their Places bought from t●e King not elected by the People So that from such Parliaments nothing can be expected but the King 's Dict●tes The great Duke of Muscovia is above all tyrannical in his ●mpositions charging on the Subject what he pleases and yet which is more oppressive to his People forestalls the chief Commodities of the Kingdom or what comes from others and sets what price he thinks sit upon them by which he destroys his own Merchants and Dealers and where other Kings make themselves and their Subjects rich by raising Money on them he makes himself Poor and his Subjects miserable Slaves barring them all Industry by shutting them out from Trade and agreeably to such Oppressions his vast Dominions are thinly planted and poor to a Prodigy and had they the liberty of seeing other Countries he would yet have a smaller Stock of Inhabitants but he keeps what he has by making it Death for all the Kindred of such as go out of his Dominions without his Licence and Permission Next to him in Arbitrary Impositions is the Duke of Florence who is not bounded in his Taxes and likewise ingrosses several Trades and sets what price he pleases upon his own Commodities by which his Country would also be made Poor but that he has the opportunity of other Help which the great Duke of Muscovia is not assisted with viz. a Country placed in the Garden of the World and by his making Legorn a Free Port made it the Centre of Trade and by that got the start of all Princes in Europe The Kingdom of Swedel●nd has many Advantages of raising Money from the Country rather than People and yet they are not exempt from Taxes all which contributes to the inriching of that Kingdom which has little of Arts or Trade to improve it only that which Nature produces and She indeed has been liberal to that great Kingdom in Min●s of all sorts though least of Gold or Silver but abounds in Copper Tin Iron c. of all which the King has a tenth as also of Cattel and Corn he has likewise the vast demeans of Bishops and Church-Lands out of which he only allows a small Competency to his own Bishops and a●ter all this he has liberty by the Laws of the Land to raise Money on the Subject in case of War The King of Poland is restrain'd and can do nothing but by the 〈◊〉 of the Dy●t yet has by that Power upon occasion of sudden Straits and Emergencies in War to raise Money upon the People by his own Comman without assembling the Dyet Denmark has a Provision for its support above any Kingdom in Europe God Almighty having as it were out of a particular Providence supplied that Kingdom out of its own production seeing there is little in it either of Arts or Nature The Toll of the Sound is a considerable Revenue to the Crown and as before mentio●'d such as no Prince in Europe has the like for that in all other Kingdoms Taxes are raised on themselves but this of the Toll front Ships passing the Sound is from Strangers that only pass by his Country and cannot reimburse themselves there Whereas Duties imposed on Foreigners that bring in their Commodities to another Country is no more than laying it on themselves only with 〈◊〉 diff●rence That they make Foreigners the first Collectors of it The other Duties on Denmark are not considerable that on Ca●●el which they sell in Germany is of most value as their Intrado is not great so is their Country poor I need not mention the manner of laying Taxes in Common-wealths 't is alwaies with the Consent of the People who are too apt to censure their Representatives if they give not satisfaction to the popul●ce And not withstanding that of Venice is A●istocratical yet have they such numbers in their Senate that no Tax can be laid but for the good of the Common-wealth there being at least two thousan● five hundred Gentlemen of Venice which are all of the Senate and although many of them are engaged in the Wars and Foreign Employments yet there can never be less if but one quarter of them than our great Council the Parliament Thus I have given but a succinct account of the nature a●d imposition of Taxes in Foreign K●ngdoms which now in as few words let us compare ou●s with and we shall see how happy a People we are above the best of our N●ighbour● And first let us consider who it is that lay Impositions upon us 'T is Men chose by our selves The difference indeed is great in the modus of our Taxes from other Kingdoms and also in the use of them For the Modus in other Kingdoms they generally consider only the Nobility and Gentry that Impositions may not touch or affect them and care not how insupportable or grievous they are to the Commonalty But with us the Taxes reach every man in proportion to his Quality and Expence In other Kingdoms they place Taxes only to raise Money and have no regard to the Trade of their Kingdom that so their Taxes may not prejudice their Commerce But in England care is alwaies had that Impositions may not impede our Trade and Manufactories Now as to the Use and Employment of Taxes in other Kingdoms they also differ much from ours In some Kingdoms 〈◊〉 are imposed to enslave the People and keep them poor as in Muscovy in other parts Taxes are laid to enrich the Nobility as in Poland in others to fill the Coffers of the Prince as in Florence Whereas none of these Uses take up our Taxes they are with great Care and Caution lain out and by the same Law that raises them appropriated for a particular service and last no longer upon the People than the necessity of the Nation requires for that we never have Money raised but for the defence of the Kingdom tho' as I shall shew in the close of this Discourse 't would re● dound to the advantage of the Kingdom if there were more Taxes raised and these assigned to publick Uses in Peace as well as War I shall now come to the chief design of this Discourse which is to demonstrate That Taxes are no Charge either to the Kingdom in general or to particular Persons but on the contrary a Gain to all But to render this matter the more plain and intelligible I shall proceed after the following method I. Shew who in the Kingdom pay the greatest part of the Taxes II. What Use is made of these Taxes and how they circulate in the Kingdom III. How