David Ricardo Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

  David Ricardo

  Fall, Luxury, Wages

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.146

• I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

  David Ricardo

  Men, Pay, Commodity

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.7

• To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.

  David Ricardo

  Commodity, Increase, Taxes

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1871). “The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.257

• If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

  David Ricardo

  Beer, Bread, Malt

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.153

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