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The entire budgetary process of taxing and spending by the state altered patterns of demand and supply for goods and services. There was no value added tax and demands for more ‘heavily’ taxed commodities (such as beer, spirits, tobacco, salt and tropical groceries) were penalised. Other goods and services (textiles, processed foodstuffs, paper, metallurgical and engineering goods, household utensils and furniture, and internal transportation) escaped with lighter taxation. Rapidly growing and innovative industries 28 patri c k k .
Mercantilists and eighteenth-century statesmen argued a great deal about ‘power and profit’. In going over debates of the day, modern military historians have distinguished two persistent and antagonistic refrains among the cacophony of contemporary views that can be read about the economic implications of Britain’s military and diplomatic relations with the rest of Europe. Their separation between ‘blue water’ and ‘continental commitment’ approaches to grand strategy is instructive to contemplate.
Britain’s fiscal policy (which complemented strategic commercial and imperial policies) promoted exports and encouraged the development of the mercantile, shipping and financial services required to integrate the populations of the kingdoms, the empire and (after 1846) peoples everywhere into a common and effectively policed international market. bo rrowi n g an d n ati on al debt Many an eighteenth-century commentator can be cited to support recent exercises in cliometric history which show how the massive rise in borrowing by the state (in order to provide immediately for the cash required to wage war) ‘crowded out’ the formation and maintenance of the stock of capital upon which the progress of the economy depended.