The public revenue is nothing but tributes — tribute = tribe. Tribus, 3?

tribus f (genitive tribÅ«s); fourth declension

1. One of the three original tribes of Rome: Ramnes, Tities, Luceres.
2. A division of the Roman people.

Augmentation of the currency is inprofitable. — “payments”?

”tributes”?

Science of money

Collect income? Debased money: perhaps the reason why rent prices are going higher is because the money (COVID “stimulus checks”) are now debased?

Davanzati believed he had demonstrated that upon raising the value of the currency, the powers of private individuals and\even the public income fall, because what princes gain once from debasement
they lose every time they collect their income in de­ basedmoney.

Gratis is Bad.

Water is
not only useful but necessary, yet to a Tnan with drop­ sy it is insalubrious and- lethal. In other words, the utility of a thing is measured principally by its use and by the circumstances under which it is used.