Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Taxation of Land, Vol. 14
It was about 1828 that a French Minister Of Finance in the French Chamber of Deputies said something like this, A budget of one thousand million francs! Behold it! Contemplate it, gentle men! You will never see its like again. And France has never seen its like again. But not because expenditures have gone down, as the Minister intended to predict, but because they have steadily increased from that time until no one even dreams of so small an annual budget as one Of a thousand million francs, even in time Of peace. And during this period, it is probable that honesty and the quality of public administration in France have, on the whole. Shown no deterioration, possibly even have improved, while liberty has grown.
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