...proportionally to the ability to pay and do not disturb economic growth or harm labor. According to Smith, the subjects of every state ought to contribute towards...respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. ... In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality...

...tax. This reads, in part: I. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to...respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expence of government to the individuals of a great nation, is like the expence of management to the...

...cannot be better commenced than by quoting them.' 'i. The subjects of every state ought to contribute to the support of the government, as nearly as possible...respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation....

...Leistungsfähigkeit in dessen Grundsatz der Gleichmäßigkeit ("The subjects ... ought to contribute ... in proportion to their respective abilities; that...respectively enjoy under the protection of the state") aus. 3. Die Leistungsfähigkeit in ihrer heutigen Gestalt ist ein Geschöpf der Gcrechtigkeitsvorstellungen...

...Focus, from Adam Smith on, has been on "ability to pay." As Smith put it, individuals should contribute "in proportion to their respective abilities; that...respectively enjoy under the protection of the state" (Smith [1776], 1937, 777). He thus offered an intriguing formulation that may be read as combining...

...four maxims of taxation which have since been associated with his name. The maxim of equality enjoins that the " subjects of every state ought to contribute...respectively enjoy under the protection of the state." The second maxim is that of certainty. " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain,...

...important in 1776. They still are, but these things are fairly well accepted now. Smith's fourth canon, that the "subjects of every state ought to contribute...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state,"12 could be taken as a prescription for a proportional (ie, fixed percentage) as distinct from...

...his proportion for the maintenance of it."16 Similarly, Adam Smith writes in The Wealth of Nations that "[t]he subjects of every state ought to contribute...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."17 The economist Frederic Bastiat listed progressive taxation as a form of legal plunder that...

...allocation Ever since Adam Smith wrote that "the subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible,...they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state,"14 the proper basis of tax burden distribution has been a controversial topic among tax scholars....

...revenue system(Papke l993). The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to...respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. Table 1 The Largest Tax Incentive Packages, l986-l996 Dollars (in millions) Company State Jobs created...