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Date: | Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:06:24 -0400 |
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Did William Petty pioneer the carbon tax?
It is stable, easier to measure, hard to game
"Of all the Accumulative Excizes, that of Harthmoney or Smoak-money
seems the best; and that onely because the easiest, and clearest, and
fittest to ground a certain Revenue upon; it being easie to tell the
number of Harths, which remove not as Heads or Polls do: Moreover,
'tis more easie to pay a small Tax, then to alter or abrogate Harths,
even though they are useless and supernumerary; nor is it possible to
cover them, because most of the neighbours know them; nor in new
Building will any man who gives forty shillings for making a Chimney
be without it for two."
Michael Perelman
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