A Cure for the Spleen Or Amusement for a Winters Evening Being the Substance
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And then the act goes on to lay duties on sugars, wines, East-India goods, &c. Imported from Great-Britain &c. This act has been, and still is, submitted to without the least complaint. Now I should be glad to know what difference there is between these two preambles, so far as respects the matter of raising a revenue.
Trim. Six of one, and half a dozen of t other, that s all.
Sharp. Nay, so long ago as the year 1670, in an act made for regulating the plantation trade, one reason expressly assi...gn d is, that otherwise "the trade of them would, in a great measure be di verted from England, and carried elsewhere, and his Majesty s customs and revenues much lessened. " In short, every revenue act is, in the nature of it, an act for raising a revenue, whether it be so expressed or not; and it is trifling at this time of day, to start an objection, which does not carry the force even of a quibble. If it be said that the money raised by this act is misapplied, because our civil officers are paid out of it, I answer, this is a distinct matter: The monies raised by this, and all other revenue acts, are, and for more than a century have been, paid into his Majesty s exchequer; and if, when there, instead of being applied towards easing British subjects in their taxes, as formerly, they are now applied for our ease, by paying the salaries of our governor, judges, &c.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And then the act goes on to lay duties on sugars, wines, East-India goods, &c. Imported from Great-Britain &c. This act has been, and still is, submitted to without the least complaint. Now I should be glad to know what difference there is between these two preambles, so far as respects the matter of raising a revenue.
Trim. Six of one, and half a dozen of t other, that s all.
Sharp. Nay, so long ago as the year 1670, in an act made for regulating the plantation trade, one reason expressly assi...gn d is, that otherwise "the trade of them would, in a great measure be di verted from England, and carried elsewhere, and his Majesty s customs and revenues much lessened. " In short, every revenue act is, in the nature of it, an act for raising a revenue, whether it be so expressed or not; and it is trifling at this time of day, to start an objection, which does not carry the force even of a quibble. If it be said that the money raised by this act is misapplied, because our civil officers are paid out of it, I answer, this is a distinct matter: The monies raised by this, and all other revenue acts, are, and for more than a century have been, paid into his Majesty s exchequer; and if, when there, instead of being applied towards easing British subjects in their taxes, as formerly, they are now applied for our ease, by paying the salaries of our governor, judges, &c.
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