And he avowed his idea of the policy proper to be pursued to be "to retain the right of taxing America, but to give it every relief that might be consistent with the welfare of the mother country.
For the maintenance of this force they intended to avail themselves of the revenues and effects of the abbeys and monasteries of each province, taxingthem arbitrarily and using force if unable to obtain payment in any other way.
Others still thought that the device was one for taxing purposes.
France at once protested against the tariff and threatened to retaliate by taxing the herring and cod trade, though the Spanish ambassador at Paris represented that such action would entirely destroy the wine trade and would compel reprisal.
The trouble between England and America had grown out of the need for a continental revenue and the lack of a continental government with taxing power--a weakness experienced throughout the Revolution and under the Confederation.
It has been his misfortune, but our good fortune, that his time and talents have been devoted to advancing the Whig party, while those who oppose him were taxing costs and filing demurrers.
The result is the same; and I don't see much difference between making the starving Hindoo pay for a cathedral at Calcutta and taxing Bulgarians for a palace on the Bosphorus.
I never could see the moral obligations Governments acknowledge of taxing people for debts which the Governments, and not the people, have incurred.
I took no interest in books or crafts, for they seemed too taxing and exhaustive in my condition.
The decision to drop all of my classes spelled defeat, for I disliked to quit, but even more it meant relief and the freedom to entertain my desires in a comfortable atmosphere without overly taxing myself.
In the south the county takes the place of the town in New England; it is the taxing unit, the unit in which all the local administration is carried on.
During this time of vexation and worry, Scott was constantly engaged in toilsome and taxing labour on an edition and life of Swift, and also made a beginning with the Lord of the Isles.
In his college lectures his method was to expatiate on the popular aspects of moral themes, studiously avoiding repulsive technicalities and brain-taxing discussions.
They came here and asked the privilege of taxing their own commerce for their own benefit, and we granted it.
There was a tax upon navigation for harbors, buoys, and beacons, but this was adjusted upon the Toombs principle of taxing the interest for which the burden was levied.
That good woman, however, on taxing her memory, rather showed a disposition to increase it to twelve.
It was taxing her apprehension severely, and she had no one to go to for enlightenment.
Now will you urge in argument for taxing the poor, that they already practise that temperance which you desire to bring universally about?
But waiving that consideration, he would ask gentlemen, if there was any propriety in taxing molasses in its raw state, with a duty intended to be laid on rum?
He spoke with much contempt of the notion of taxing the people of this country to pay for the ravages of Britain.
I observed some gentlemen, in their arguments on the last article, laid great stress upon the impropriety of taxing the necessaries of life that were principally consumed by the poorer class of citizens.
I am in favor of taxing this article as high as there is a probability of collecting the duty.
And he defended the principle of taxing the native on the ground that “the existence of the tax is an inducement to him to work.
Gradually, of course, this attitude towards representation changed as parliament grasped control of the public purse, and with it the power of taxing its foes and sparing its friends.
But as revenues were necessary, the taxing power was the one legislative function that was constantly exercised.
Parliament, control of taxing power by, 6; four distinct constituencies represented in, 7.
A certain amount of freedom in the use of the taxing power would seem to be no less essential to the city than to the state itself.
In time Parliament extended its powers and succeeded in making its assent necessary to all governmental acts which vitally affected the welfare of the nation, whether they involved an exercise of the taxing power or not.
This opportunity came with the outbreak of the American Revolution which at the outset was merely an organized and armed protest against what the colonies regarded as an arbitrary and unconstitutional exercise of the taxing power.
The framers of the Constitution were desirous of preventing any use of the taxing power by the general government that would be prejudicial to the interests of the well-to-do classes.
As these frauds took place chiefly at the ports or along the seaboard, Walpole hoped by taxing the retail trade, and not the importation, much to lessen them.
He was in fact taxing the poor and the manufacturing classes for the sake of winning the landed interest, which would be called upon to pay a land tax of one instead of two shillings.
We are told, what appears to the old member and to others, a position that must drive us into inextricable absurdity: that we have either no right, or the sole right, of taxing the colonies.
If to this be added the power of taxing America, at pleasure, the crown will possess more treasure than may be necessary to purchase the remains of liberty in your island.
If we do not withhold our king and his parliament from taxing them, they will cross the Atlantick, and enslave us.
We answer, with very little hesitation, that, for the general use of the empire, we have the sole right of taxing them.
There should be a reasonable system of taxing growing timber, and there should be cooperation in meeting the peculiar difficulties of his business which tend to stand in the way of Conservation.
Applause) We now take up "A Rational System ofTaxing National Resources," by Frank L.
It may be said in the beginning that the difficulties involved in the taxing of natural resources exist to still greater degree in the case of other property.
That in taxing forested lands, no account should be taken of the timber until it is cut and sold.
To my mind, a rational system of taxing natural resources depends largely on administration based upon a few fundamental principles of legislation.
The first step in any adequate system of taxing water-powers must be their survey.
This plan meets the criticism of the local assessing officers by providing a basis of taxing annually a part of the valuation, and of procuring some income for the local government.
When the American patriots of 1775 took up arms because Parliament insisted on taxing them, they were not defending some new principle.
They took for granted that Parliament would not violate their rights as Englishmen by taxing them, but it would have comforted them to have it down in black and white.
That system protected homemade fire-boiled common salt, because it had a foreign rival: we had no sun-made crystallized salt at home; and therefore had nothing to protect in taxing the foreign article.
But why should I distress you, my best Emmeline, with a repetition of my hopeless sorrows; why cannot I now refrain, as I have hitherto done, from taxing with my complaints your lively sensibility?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taxing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
