The New Republic, a Progressive Commonwealth; Demonstrating the Economic Necessity of Free Employment, Old Age and Disability Pensions - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... and the substitution therefor of a percentage tax upon money transfers, the rate of such business tax to be changed from year to year to meet conditions and demands; that unused land, increasing in value through the natural increase of the population, Fhould not be allowed to premiumize inactivity, and increase to the detriment of the common welfare; but should be taxed according to the density of the population in which it may be situated. 9. Law, Order and Justice Base of True Reform. That conditions of society as organized, intolerable as they may be, have developed under the law, and that to change them we must change the laws, that those who expect justice for themselves must be willing to accord it to others. Wealth as it is distributed has been distributed under the law, and that if we wish to prevent further unequal distribution we must remove its cause by changing the law. That the public may purchase at fair valuation anything it may desire to control, but that it cannot in the name of justice confiscate property lawfully obtained. 10. National or Uniform Laws. That the utilization of the powerful forces of steam and electricity tend to extend the currents of business throughout the entire country, regardless of the oft-retarding boundaries of states; it is therefore needful in order to promote the best interests of the nation that the laws relating to its social, commercial, and political life should be such that, while permitting the states to operate them under executives of their own choice, the laws should be laws that would express the solidarity and the ripened judgment in their wisdom and uniformity of a nation recognizing that its peace, prosperity, and permanence depend upon such uniformity. 11. Freedom of Ca-pital., That any individual...

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