Excises in Modern Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9756612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alzada Comstock (Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachuseits, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1936 |
| Volume | 183 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-117 |
| Publication date | 1936-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271623618300115 |
| OpenAlex | W2016917195 |
| Language | EN |
EXCISES have a place in a tax system which meets needs of United States today in spite of disagreeable and even hateful connotation of term in many periods of English and American history. The very word excise, which indicates duties on articles of home manufacture as distinct from customs, suggested political oppression in early days of Republic. When Alexander Hamilton was arranging first duties of this kind after Federal Government was formed, excises were called the horror of all free states and
Connotation · Economic history · Excise · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Oppression · Political science · Politics · The Republic · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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