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The duties all around amount to 50% of the cost. At various times the firm protested against the burden, with the effect that 5% was taken off, leaving a duty of 45%. This state of things also prevailed on the continent to a greater or lesser extent, and the result was that Mr. Fox was not slow to recognize the fallacy of free trade doctrines. His French businesses was hampered, to a most vexatious extent, by the fiscal regulations.
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Thus, the difficulty-fraught conservative merger was completed, and Japan's first unified right-wing party, the Liberal Democratic Party, was born. Miki, Hatoyama, Ono, and Taketora Ogata shared the interim presidential committee, and five months later Hatoyama was inaugurated as president of the Liberal Democratic Party. On the future of the Liberal Democratic Party, which had gotten off the ground leaving the most vexatious conflicts unresolved, Miki is well known for his assessment that the party "would be lucky to last two or three years".Kent E. Calder, Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan, 1949-1986 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988), 59.
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Years later in a debate on an entirely separate issue, another MP attacked him as "the author of the most vexatious tax upon the people that ever was known". As a member of the Court party, he thought it better not to contest the 1679 General Election, since the public mood was bitterly hostile to the Government. The hearth tax was brought up again, his enemies jeering that he could hardly expect to find a Parliamentary seat in "any place with chimneys". On the other hand, his services to the Government earned him the lasting goodwill of King Charles II. The King, whose gratitude was not always to be relied on, intervened personally to assist Pole in recovering his Irish lands, writing to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde that Pole's "signal services" should be rewarded with "extraordinary kindness".
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Once the authorities had restored revenue collections in the area, the local population were again subjected to frequent raids from the Revenue Police and township fines. These raids were often accompanied by public disturbances. In 1818, the disruption caused by these raids led the local population to petition parliament for relief from the frequent levying of harsh fines. The text of the petition highlighted many of the concerns of the local population: > That the petitioners are compelled to endure the most vexatious and > oppressive exactions under the name of fines for illicit distillation, > imposed upon the aforesaid Parish and townlands contained therein; that many > persons who are guiltless or incapable of illicit distillation, have been > forced to pay large portions of such fines, and that all proofs of > individual innocence are rejected as reasons for exemption from payment of > them; that the severity of diverse persons professing to bear excise > commissions has been so great that alarming disturbances have broken out in > their neighborhood and that the ordinary execution of the laws has failed in > restoring tranquility.
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