Should tax money support research by private companies?

Belgium aims to tax all beverage packaging by the end of 1997.

In the West, where taxing and spending by initiative has a strong tradition, the balancing act is particularly difficult.

Many British automobile companies used undersquare designs through the 1950s, largely because of a motor tax system that taxed cars by their cylinder bore.

Germany alone could finance all of its debt by taxing the savings of its richest people by only 5%.

The newcomers will be pounced on by the old brigade; their clothes and other belongings will be subject to "taxing" by the top dogs.

We could tax sport utility vehicles by the pound.

We could tax biographies by the word.

We could tax carry-on luggage by the ton.

In 1695 the Colony of New York taxed "Sojourners by the head 24 sh."