Volume 5 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 5 (of 6) 28/45 (SR.)] [Footnote 4207: It must have been evident that nature gives to each worker, hunter, farmer or fisherman in accordance with their competence and industry. (SR.)] [Footnote 4208: Construction of roads, canals, sewers, highways etc and protection against calamities.] [Footnote 4209: Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, "Traite de la science des finances," 4th edition, I., p. 303: "The personal tax, levied only as principal, oscillates between the minimum of 1 fr. 50 per annum, according to the communes."-- Ibid., 304: "In 1806 the personal tax produced in France about sixteen millions of francs, a little less than 0 fr. |