What Thomas Paine thinks about fiscal policy
Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809), born in Norfolk, England; author of Common Sense, a central text behind the call for American independence, and Rights of Man.
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5 dated positions, c. 1792 to c. 1795–1797, in their own words. Our reading of what Thomas Paine has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsEvery 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.
↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org All 18 from this book
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Their wordsTo create a National Fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of Fifteen Pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property.
↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org All 18 from this book
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Their wordsIt is proposed that the payments, as already stated, be made to every person, rich or poor. It is best to make it so, to prevent invidious distinctions.
↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org All 18 from this book
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Their wordsWould it not, even as a matter of economy, be far better, to devise means to prevent their becoming poor. This can best be done, by making every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, an inheritor of something to begin with.
↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org All 18 from this book
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Their wordsBut the chief object of this progressive tax (besides the justice of rendering taxes more equal than they are) is, as already stated, to extirpate the overgrown influence arising from the unnatural law of primogeniture, and which is one of the principal sources of corruption at elections.
↗Rights of Man (1791-1792)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book