Adam Smith quote about democracy from The Wealth of Nations - The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary.
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The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary.
 Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776). copy citation

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Author Adam Smith
Source The Wealth of Nations
Topic democracy tax confidence
Date 1776
Language English
Reference An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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“In the following examination of different taxes, I shall seldom take much farther notice of this sort of inequality; but shall, in most cases, confine my observations to that inequality which is occasioned by a particular tax falling unequally upon that particular sort of private revenue which is affected by it.
2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax-gatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself.” source

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