INDIRECT TAX • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Indirect tax

... would prove impossible for the Republic of 1790 to endure the burden imposed upon the public treasury by the funding of the debt of the Revolution. More promptly than any other financier of that century he saw that ten dollars could be more easily collected by indirect tax than one dollar by direct levy, and that he could thus avoid those burdensome exactions from the people which had proved so onerous in Europe, and which had just aided in precipitating France into ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine