'This cleaning and preparation that I observe going on must be rather a tax upon you'?

“我观察到的这种清洁和准备工作一定是对你的征税”？

Such taxes, therefore, are really equivalent, they say, to a tax upon every particular commodity produced at home.

因此，他们说，这种税收实际上等同于对国内生产的每一种特定商品征税。

That of Holland was meant to be a tax upon the capital.

荷兰的征税是对首都征税。

In this spirit the sponsors of the Wilson tariff bill laid a tax upon all incomes of $4000 a year or more.

本着这种精神， 威尔逊关税法案的发起人对每年 4000 美元或以上的所有收入征税。

It is a tax upon the supposed profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm.

这是对农民的假定利润征税， 他们根据农民在农场拥有的存货估算利润。

A tax upon this recompence, therefore, could have no other effect than to raise it somewhat higher than in proportion to the tax.

因此，对这种报酬征税，除了使它比与税收的比例高一些之外，没有其他效果。

A tax upon them would fall altogether upon the proprietor, who would thus be taxed for a subject which afforded him neither conveniency nor revenue.

对他们征税将完全落在所有者身上，因此，所有者将因一个既不给他带来便利也没有收入的主题而被征税。

A tax upon tobacco, for example, though a luxury of the poor, as well as of the rich, will not raise wages.

例如，对烟草征税，虽然对穷人和富人来说都是一种奢侈，但不会提高工资。

For these reasons, the project of a tax upon shops was laid aside, and in the room of it was substituted the subsidy, 1759.

由于这些原因， 对商店征税的计划被搁置， 取而代之的是 1759 年的补贴。

This price, however, was probably below the average market price, the obligation to deliver their wheat at this rate being considered as a tax upon the Sicilian farmers.

然而，这个价格可能低于平均市场价格，以这个价格交付小麦的义务被认为是对西西里农民的一种征税。

I have already mentioned a tax upon bread, which, so far as it is consumed in farm houses and country villages, is there levied in the same manner.

我已经提到过面包税， 只要面包是在农舍和乡村消费的， 就以同样的方式征税。

It is thus that a tax upon the necessaries of life operates exactly in the same manner as a direct tax upon the wages of labour.

因此，对生活必需品征税的方式与对劳动工资直接征税的方式完全相同。

A tax upon house-rent, payable by the tenant, and proportioned to the whole rent of each house, could not, for any considerable time at least, affect the building-rent.

房租税由承租人缴纳，与每间房屋的全部租金成比例，至少在相当长的一段时间内不会影响房屋租金。

As the wealth of those competitors would in no respect be increased by a tax upon ground-rents, they would not probably be disposed to pay more for the use of the ground.

由于这些竞争者的财富在任何方面都不会因对地租征税而增加，因此他们可能不会愿意为土地的使用支付更多的费用。

When the ordinary price of any particular produce of land is at what may be called a monopoly price, a tax upon it necessarily reduces the rent and profit of the land which grows it.

当任何特定土地产品的普通价格处于所谓的垄断价格时，对其征税必然会减少种植它的土地的地租和利润。

The next tax of this kind was a tax of two shillings upon every dwelling-house inhabited. A house with ten windows to pay four shillings more. A house with twenty windows and upwards to pay eight shillings.

下一个此类税是对每户住宅征收两先令的税。一栋有十扇窗户的房子要多付四先令。一栋有二十扇窗户的房子要付八先令。

So very heavy a tax upon the first necessary of life-must either reduce the subsistence of the labouring poor, or it must occasion some augmentation in their pecuniary wages, proportionable to that in the pecuniary price of their subsistence.

对生活必需品征收如此重的税——要么会减少劳动穷人的生计，要么会导致他们的金钱工资有所增加，与他们生活资料的金钱价格成正比。

But the consumption of malt is in malt liquors; and a tax of eighteen shillings upon the quarter of malt could not well render those liquors dearer than the different taxes, amounting to twenty-four or twenty-five shillings, do at present.

但是麦芽的消费是在麦芽酒中；对每夸特麦芽征收 18 先令的税并不能使这些酒比目前征收 24 或 25 先令的不同税更贵。