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28 May 1816
Deontology Political
Insert below if net utility for an article
§. Political deontology applied to the department of finance.
1. By the department of finance provision is made for the expence expenditure
of the several other departments
2. The subject of expenditure is the matter of good applied in the
shape of matter of reward
3. Expense Service or use is the good aimed at: expense the evil
incurred in the hope of promoting the good.
4. Of the matter of reward no considerable portion applicable to the support of government
is obtained or obtainable otherwise than at the expense of the which
is a part of the community
in the character
of contributors: and in
so far as it is obtained
from them, so much
evil – evil of sufferance,
is produced in their breasts.
5. Contribution of Proportions
to the quantity of the
matter of good paid by
compulsion i.e. in the shape of
compulsion is the quantity forced contribution is the quantity
of evil sustained by each
the payers.
6. Money the representative
of the matter of
good in general – i.e.
the surest and principle
means of obtaining it
is the shape in which
to the greatest amount
and in the most direct
manner, the matter of
good is extracted for
the purposes of finance.
5 7. Ends in view. 1. Maximizing the good. 2. Minimizing
the evil.
8. Service is of by person. 2. of by things: services of things are
uses.
9. Rules in regard to personal services for which the matter of reward is
to be expended.
1. Employ public servants in the smallest number possible
1. Minimize the number
2. Maximize the quality: i.e. the value of the service
of each
3. Maximize the quantity of service extracted from each
4. Minimize the quantity of the matter of reward expended upon
each
10. Mutatis mutandis the above rules will apply serve to things
11. Rule for judging of the utility Criterion of net utility of any article of expenditure finances
– Compare the "value of the good produced by the service
for which the expenditure is increased with the value of the worst evil produced by the quantity
extraction of the quantity of rewar the matter of reward
employed in payment of for the service, paid by the most grievous
tax.
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