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| B. it increases the ability of the inhabitants to pay taxes, | No. XII. | 74 |
| C. the system of "direct taxation" unsuccessful in the United States, | 74 | |
| D. "indirect taxation" the main dependence for the necessary revenues, | 75 | |
| a. because "the genius of the People" is opposed to excise laws, | 75 | |
| b. because the scarcity of money will render the collection of excise duties difficult, | 75 | |
| E. the union of the States will best enable us to improve this resource, | 75 | |
| a. by being conducive to commerce from whence it is drawn, | 76 | |
| b. by simplifying the regulations for its collection, | 76 | |
| F. the separation of the States would destroy this source of revenue, | 76 | |
| a. by promoting illicit trade, | 76 | |
| b. by promoting jealousy between the States, and ultimate reduction of impost duties, in order to secure trade, | 76 | |
| c. from the absence of sufficiently rigorous border-guards between the States, and the improbability of their establishment, | 76 | |
| a. the ordinary powers of border-guards intolerable in a free country, | 76 | |
| b. border-guards unnecessary with the States united, | 77 | |
| G. the effect of a destruction of this resource, | 78 | |
| a. necessity of revenue to the existence of a nation, | 78 | |
| b. if it cannot be obtained from commerce it must be taken from the real estate of the inhabitants, | 79 | |
| a. because excises will not be available, | 79 | |
| b. because the objects proper for excise within the agricultural States will be insufficient to produce the requisite revenue, | 79 | |
| c. because it is difficult to trace personal property, | 79 | |
| 9. in the greater economy in the administration of government, | XIII. | 80 |
| A. "if the States are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support," | 80 | |
| B. "if they are divided into several confederacies, there will be as many national civil lists to be provided for," | 80 | |
| a. speculations on the number of confederacies to be formed from the débris of the Union, | 80 | |
| b. each small confederacy will require a civil list as extended as has been proposed in the new system for the aggregate of all the States, | 80 | |
| a. because of the extent of territory which each will occupy, | 80 | |
| b. because of the necessary plurality of the revenue departments, | 82 |
