4. It will take the necessary steps to select those commodities which form the prime necessaries of life, or, from habit, have become the principal articles of consumption, the produce of, and imported from, foreign states, subjecting them to a duty of 20 per cent.
As alternative, the Marxists advocated communist society where there would be common ownership of the means of production, where each individual citizen would have free access to the articles of consumption and reduce dependency on others [13].
Well, then, we will endeavour to prove and illustrate every opinion we have offered to the full; and that by our own experience in four of the most important articles of the consumption of this country Coffee and Sugar, as representing the Colonial interests; Wool and Corn, as representing the Home or Agricultural interests.
From the standpoint of revenue alone, a country can levy an equivalent tax on domestic production (to avoid protecting it) or select a relatively small number of imported articles of general consumption and subject them to low duties so that there will be no tendency to shift resources into industries producing such taxed goods (or substitutes for them).
It appears that all that was once familiar to us has been meticulously reassembled in distant places of the earth, so that we may enjoy the amenities of cheap clothing and articles for consumption, toys at knockdown prices for our children and pampered holidays in destinations where we can freely harvest the youth and beauty of compliant strangers.
It is of no avail to open freely our ports for articles of small and trifling consumption, to open our trade to small and comparatively unimportant specks on the ocean;—if we will really extend our trade, we must be willing to take freely and regularly articles of extensive consumption from countries of wide and rich territory, having great wants.
This is one of the few articles of any importance the consumption of which has fallen off this year.COFFEE. This article has sold during the last week freely, and at full prices.
As well as tracing the major approaches and concepts in studying the history of consumption, the article examines the periodization of mass consumption, consumption regimes outside the West, and the shared concerns of the new agendas of research in the field.
PAGE A43 DYING OF CONSUMPTION In an Op-Ed article, Stephen S. Roach, the chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, writes that there is a silver lining to the economic crisis.
An article on Sunday about India's growing need for energy misstated the country's rate of consumption.
Correction: June 8 , 2005 Wednesday An article on Sunday about India's growing need for energy misstated the country's rate of consumption.
