ABSTRACT
Because indirect taxes enhance the prices of commodities – the trades-men adding to those prices not only the amount of the indirect taxes, but the interest and profit upon the capital advanced in their payment;
Because indirect taxes conceal from an individual what he is paying to the state, whereas a direct tax is undisguised, unsophisticated, and not to be misunderstood by the meanest capacity. Direct taxation prompts therefore every individual to control the governing powers while indirect taxation destroys all tendency to self-government [ . . . ]
Armies [French and German subtitle reads: “Standing armies
their relation to production.”]
(a) The deleterious influence of large standing armies upon production, has been sufficiently exposed at middle-class congresses of all denominations, at peace congresses, economical congresses, statistical congresses, philanthropical congresses, sociological congresses. We think it, therefore, quite superfluous to expatiate upon this point.
