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Updated: May 18, 2025
But this disproportion will seem still more shocking when it is remembered that the calculation which we have just made concerning the electoral class is altogether wrong, altogether in favor of the voters. In fact, the only taxes which are levied for the enjoyment of the right of suffrage are: the land tax; the tax on polls and personal property; the tax on doors and windows; license-fees.
The first sort of taxes including in France the tax on land, the tax on doors and windows, the poll-tax, the tax on personal property, the tax on tenants, license-fees, the tax on transfers of property, the tax on officials' fees, road-taxes, and brevets is the share which the sovereign reserves for himself out of all the monopolies which he concedes or tolerates; it is, as we have said, the indemnity of the poor, the permit granted to property.
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