Past Present Probably The Future State Of The Wine Trade

Excerpt from The Past, Present and Probably the Future State of the Wine Trade; Proving That an Increase of Duty Caused a Decrease of Revenue; And a Decrease of Duty, an Increase of Revenue: Founded on Parliamentary and Other Authentic Documents; Most Respectfully Submitted to the Right Honourable the President and Members of the Board of Trade Rate Of Duty, would respectively state the Facts of its operation on their particular Trade, of which it may be supposed that they are well informed, - that by candid and true representations from such authorities the attention and investigation Of Govem ment would be Obtained; and no doubt need be entertained that an enlightened Ministry, who have equal interest with the rest of the community, would be happy to improve the Revenue by the reduction Of Duties - especially as an Honourable Mem ber of his Majesty's Government is reported to have said, in the House of Commons, in the debate upon the Finance of the country, in March last That if it could be shewn that Taxes, by a direct opera-l tion, tended to diminish Consumption, then it might be time to see what reduction ought to be made in them. With this impression upon my mind, and upon these principles, I overcome my scruples, and presume to. Appear before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.