Hence, during
the eight months which follow, from May 1st, 1790, to January 1st,
1791, the patriotic contribution furnishes but 11,000,000 livres.
Two years later, on the 1st of February, 1793, out of the forty
thousand communal tax-rolls which should provide for it, there are
seven thousand which are not yet drawn up; out of 180,000,000 livres
which it ought to produce, there are 70,000,000 livres which are
still due. - The resistance of the tax-payer produces a similar
deficit, and similar delays in all branches of the national
income.[49] In the month of June, 1790, a deputy declares in the
tribune that "out of thirty-six millions of imposts which ought to
be returned each month only nine have been received."[50] In the
month of November, 1791, a reporter on the budget states that the
receipts, which should amount to forty or forty-eight millions a
month, do not reach eleven millions and a half. On February 1,
1793, there remains still due on the direct taxes of 1789 and 1790
one hundred and seventy-six millions.
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