On The Uses and Amount of Direct Revenues
To the People of the United States of America:
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets.
AS OF MARCH 30, 2022: THE RATIONIST IS BEING REVISED!
THE INITIAL DRAFTS OF THE RATIONIST WERE FIRST PUBLISHED ON APRIL 29, 2021.
SINCE THEN, THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT XXVIII HAS BEEN MODIFIED TO, AMONG OTHER THINGS, ALLOCATE ALL REVENUES TO THE STATES.
THE COMPLETE, FINAL RATIONIST WILL BE FIRST PUBLISHED IN LONDON, ENGLAND, ON THE BLIND SPOT, COMMENCING IN APRIL 2022.
EACH ESSAY WILL BE POSTED HERE SHORTLY AFTER INITIAL PUBLICATION ON THE BLIND SPOT, AND THE OFFICIAL RATIONIST WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN PDF FORMAT FOR DOWNLOAD SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
IN THE MEANTIME, REVIEW THIS SUMMARY WHICH GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF OUR OBJECTIVES, ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIALS ON THE HOME PAGE.
THE PRESERVATION OF THE MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE AMONG THE LOWEST RANKS, IS OF MORE IMPORTANCE TO THE PUBLIC THAN ALL THE PROPERTY OF ALL THE RICH MEN IN THE COUNTRY.
The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign articles, is PAID CHEERFULLY BY THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD TO ADD FOREIGN LUXURIES TO DOMESTIC COMFORTS, being collected on our seaboards and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and pride of an American to ask, what farmer, what mechanic, what laborer, ever sees a tax-gatherer of the United States? These contributions enable us to support the current expenses of the government, to fulfil contracts with foreign nations, to extinguish the native right of soil within our limits, to extend those limits, and to apply such a surplus to our public debts, as places at a short day their final redemption, and that redemption once effected, THE REVENUE THEREBY LIBERATED MAY, BY A JUST REPARTITION AMONG THE STATES, AND A CORRESPONDING AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION, BE APPLIED, IN TIME OF PEACE, TO RIVERS, CANALS, ROADS, ARTS, MANUFACTURES, EDUCATION, AND OTHER GREAT OBJECTS WITHIN EACH STATE.
GRACCHUS.
