...use the words of Dr Smithj are not only indispensably necessary for the support of life, but which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...creditable people even of the lowest order to be without, consists in this, that the former is altogether a tax on profits, and is entirely paid by the employers...

...directly and proportionably, the revenue .of its subjects, endeavours to tax it indirectly by taxing their expense, which, it is supposed, will in most...commodities which are indispensably necessary for the supT port of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people,...

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...words of Dr Smith, such a rate as will enable the labourer to obtain " not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." Now it is plain, from this definition, that there neither is nor can be any absolute standard of natural...

...passing into the state, and acquiring the character of necessaries. " By necessaries," says Dr Smith, " I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the " This of course includes the meaning no* to marry without. support of life, but whatever the custom...

...increased economy ; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, — that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -{• — be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,...

...increased economy ; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, <— that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -j—be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,...

...a variety of circumstances. It must comprise, in the words of Adam Smith, "not only such things as are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." The quantity and kind of these things depend, not only on the habits and customs of the people. but...

...such a rate as may enable them to obtain not only the commodities which are indispensably neceseary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. In this there is an obvious confusion between cause and effect. Custom renders it discreditable to...

...words of Adam Smith, such a rate as will enable the labourer to obtain, "not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." Now it is plain, from this definition, that there can be no absolute standard of natural or necessary...