The Medicine Stamp Tax: An Oppressive Burden on the Sick, an Encouragement to Quackery, a Stigma Upon Legitimate Medicine : Giving Foreign Trade Unfair Advantage Over English CommerceModern Press, 1884 - 15 pagina's |
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abroad abrogation according added advertise amount become best bottle British Budget speech burden canon of taxation cent Channel Islands circumstances class cogent Commerce Commissioners consumer is ignored country Curative daily defined dispensed drugs enable ENCOURAGEMENT enforce England English house engraved evil exceed export fact forced foreign Free Trade Government endorsement Government STAMP affixed guard against fraud honour impose inconvenience iniquitous injurious Inland Revenue Ireland Isle label labour Lancet least able LEGITIMATE MEDICINE letter levied little man's medical medicine manufacturers MEDICINE STAMP TAX Medicines Stamp Act ment mode of payment morphia mountains of taxes newspaper original cost paid patent medicine physicians poor practically price PRINTED production profit protect proviso quack medicines quack nostrum QUACKERY remission repeal result retailer SICK SOMERSET HOUSE specially Stamp Duties STIGMA UPON LEGITIMATE stipulating suffer supposed Syrup taxation says Taxes upon everything trade and industry treasury unjust vague value vendor whilst wholesale dealer words
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Pagina 4 - ... pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride— at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Pagina 4 - ... the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man...
Pagina 3 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Pagina 6 - I may be permitted to add that, while we have sought to do justice to the great labour community of England by furthering their relief from indirect taxation, we have not been guided by any desire to put one class against another. We have felt we should best maintain our own honour, that we should best meet the views of Parliament, and best promote the interests of the country, by declining to draw any invidious distinction between class and class, by adopting it to ourselves as a sacred aim to diffuse...
Pagina 4 - Taxes on raw material. Taxes on every value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug which restores him to health. On the ermine which decorates the judge and the rope which hangs the criminal.
Pagina 3 - Taxes upon everything upon earth and the waters under the earth. On everything that comes from abroad or is grown at home. Taxes on raw material. Taxes on every value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug which restores him to health. On the ermine which...
Pagina 4 - This is no new law ; it has been in existence for more than half a century, and...
Pagina 3 - We are never tired of praising the great work which has been done in these thirty years. There has been a great remission of taxation — mountains of taxes, I may say, have been removed from the pressure put upon the consumers and also upon the trade and industry of the country :— we have done an amount of work of which any nation may be proud in the course of about one generation. But it now seems to us that there is another side to the question of finance which stands as much in need of attention...
Pagina 5 - were first levied in Holland under the pressure of the war of independence against the Spanish Monarchy ; in England they were introduced in 1671, and though at one time contemplated only as a temporary revenue, they continued to be levied annually without intermission.
Pagina 7 - The time of payment, mode of payment, and amount to be paid ought to be clearly defined.