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Every owner of cultivated land owes the community a ground-rent for the land
Drawn from what Thomas Paine said
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- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
Every proprietor therefore of cultivated land, owes to the community a ground-rent; for I know no better term to express the idea by, for the land which he holds: and it is from this ground rent that the fund proposed in this plan is to issue.
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↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org
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