Taxes by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 19, 1876

Taxes.

By Uriah Smith

Tax time is drawing near. Every one must feel in these times like cutting off all unjust claims in this direction. Look over the following schedule presented by Dr. Franklin, and see if you are paying any that you ought not to pay, and act accordingly:—

“The taxes are indeed heavy, said Dr. Franklin on one occasion, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing any abatement.” U. S.