The Fate of Iciodorum Being the Story of a City Made Rich by Taxation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Fate of Iciodorum Being the Story of a City Made Rich by Taxation And all this magnificence of wealth and power, so important for national ad vertisement, costs little or nothing to the people of the nation: a few sous or'a few francs from each one; the rest is paid by foreigners. Nobody is much the poorer for all the riches of the Anonymous Equitable Associations of the nation, and the few who are so, chiefly weaklings or persons without enterprise, are negligible quantities in the development of high finance. It is only the doctrinaire who raises his voice against the Octroi. The practical man sees in it the open door to a world of opportunities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.