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Show (43) ( 4-9 ) the {hape of taxes. No other will ferveour purpofe, I reply once more, that we have It really in that lhape; time. for cannot we, and don't we tar. it when it comes hi- twenty ; but {0 is likewife the time a good deal lhort of‘a year, and the money much leis than a guinea. But ther, and is not that the fame thing? Are there not, taxes enow to take it, as {non as it gets to Britain, or why don't you ask for more if there are not? Who lays you nay here? Iwill be bold to fay, that there is at this time raifed on Great Britain, nothing leis than ten millions iterling a year, helides the collection. which it However they do not perhaps amount quite to. this 13 not taking the matter in the lirongtil light, :lhere is achain and union of taxes, which operate twenty millions. It is laid, that about three millions infenfibly and almolt beyond imagination. Go into a Shoemaker's (hop. Buy a pair of {hoes there. How many taxes does any one in elieét pay then 1' The Journeyman Shoemaker mul‘t put into his day'slabour, and confequently there mull be laid upon the {hoes made by him, all the taxes, which he and his family and a quarter of guineas have on occaiion of the light gold been brought into the bank. Let our curcency be pay in the meantime, for his ialt, for his foap, for his coals, for his candles, for his linen, and for the need not be faid, is a very confiderable {um more. Our fpecie has never been ulied to be reckoned at above calculated on that ground, and we lhall according to very {hoes worn by him, his wife, and his children, any juit reafoning thereon, appear to raife within the year, by taxes, including the collection, a {um at leal't equal to half of the whole fpecie and current coin of the kingdom; a prodigious proportion and perhaps andfor very many other things. Thefe are all iufl: {0 much money out of his pocket, and hemull bere- paid them by his daily lanonr, which is his only means. He cannot Otherwiie live ; there would be no? incredible, were we not to examine into particulars. fhoes, and men mull; go without them. But it is not the immediate taxes of the Shoemaker only, which ‘ Should it be faid, that a circulating guinea cannot but pay twenty diferent taxes in a year, fome might pollibly be at firlt furprifed at it. But how far firm: will that, on a more minute examination, he found of the truth? Let us Conllder only the conrfe ofa lhil- ling for a very fhort time. A chairman pays out of it for his pot of porter. How many taxes does that include ; the new and old taxes on beer and malt, and the tax on hops? They are more than I have time to reckon. His wife {ends next morning to the {hop for her tea and fugar. How many more are there? i will leave them to be counted by thofe better acquainted with the book of rates than I am. But here are a confiderable number gone thro', out of one lingle lhil~ ling, by the time that a porter has got his beer over night, and his Wife her breakfaflt the next monning: There remains then a third part of the money to run the gauntlet again, in the fervice ofthe man, at dinnci go upon his manuiaflure, butthofe likewil‘e of his t‘radefmen. The price of his clothes is enhanced by the taxes, which the Taylor and the Weaver paid, While they were making and weaving them ; however, not by theirs only, but by thofe likewile ol' the perfons working for them in their turn, and f0 on. Thefe mull all be put on the lhoes. lnfomuch that the Whole, fully purfued and oblerved, makes a feries and combination, fit to put Newton, or Demoivre,_at a fiand. A poor guinea, 0r iliillitlg, cannot, in Eng- land, put its head, if Imay {o exprefs myfelf, out of any man's‘poeket, but that an army of thofe catchpoles are ready to feize upon it, whereever 1t iiirs. The matter being'then viewed in thefe lights, it feems no longer ilrange, if we raife arevenue equal to the half of our currency, or more. This is a prodigious Operation, and furely fufficient to fatisfy any admini~ firation' whatfoever. time. Let us therefore content ‘onrG. {elves |