Wine Duties, Considered Financially and Socially

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Excerpt from Wine Duties, Considered Financially and Socially: Being a Reply to Sir James Emerson Tennent, on "Wine: Its Taxation and Uses"The history of the taste of the people in the seventeenth century, with the change from natural to sophisticated wines in the eighteenth, is itself interesting, and affords much matter for inquiry.When refinement dhas induced a general use of articles formerly denominated luxuries, they should no longer be restricted by onerous and almost prohibitory imposts. The correct course would be, by judicious and moderate duties, to encourage their freer use, and obtain a larger revenue from the consumption of the many than from the exclusive indulgence of the few.This volume is offered to the public with a sincere hope that truth alone prompted the publication, to establish the inferences naturally, and it is hoped conclusively, to be drawn from a fair examination of its arguments.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.