"The property of this country is absolutely concentred in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards..."
"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
2007-07-24 10:57:45 · 17 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Christ,
I'm giving 5 points to the first correct answer.
2007-07-24 11:06:01 · update #1
Thomas Jefferson.
2007-07-24 11:01:41 · answer #1 · answered by Hjaduk 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Thomas Jefferson
2007-07-24 18:09:50 · answer #2 · answered by medmidou 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
T.J. said it but what is relevant to what he said is the last I copied. We no longer get our subsistence from the land, it was abandoned by most for cities and manufacture.
Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."
2007-07-24 18:12:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thomas Jefferson!
2007-07-24 18:06:49 · answer #4 · answered by tangerine 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who said this?
"That, on the principle of a communion of property, small societies may exist in habits of virtue, order, industry, and peace, and consequently in a state of as much happiness as Heaven has been pleased to deal out to imperfect humanity, I can readily conceive, and indeed, have seen its proofs in various small societies which have been constituted on that principle. But I do not feel authorized to conclude from these that an extended society, like that of the United States or of an individual State, could be governed happily on the same principle."
I have to laugh at anyone comparing Marx to Jefferson. It's not even close.
2007-07-24 18:03:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The best president ever, Thomas Jefferson.
2007-07-24 18:09:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clearly, Thomas Jefferson. He was a yeoman, not a business capitalist like Hamilton. He didn't understand business or money very well, but he thought that the US should expand so that tens of generations could be self-sufficient land owners. He had a very, well, stupid understanding about how the economy should work. Kind of an old-fashioned belief based on reactions to feudalism.
2007-07-24 18:02:37 · answer #7 · answered by TheOrange Evil 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
I'm assuming Thomas Jefferson.
2007-07-24 18:02:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Groucho marx
2007-07-24 18:22:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
I don't think Jefferson meant that we should be communist, and the government take everything away from everyone.
But the Democrats of Today believe that. (Except for their Super Rich Families & Friends.)
2007-07-24 18:04:23 · answer #10 · answered by wolf 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋