Excerpt from Compendium and Brief History of Taxation in Pennsylvania: With Statistics of the Public Debt and Finances; Facts Relating to the Auditor General's Department; Receipts and Disbursements; References to Laws and Decisions Under Which Revenues Are Collected in Pennsylvania as Well as in Other States Every Government must provide by taxation for the general ex penses and for the cost of other public necessities. This burden is imposed upon the people, who are called upon to contribute a fair, just and equal amount for that purpose. 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.