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1829 June 6
Petitions

Supplement
(6) II. Elucidation
§.6. Danish Reconciliation

38 or 12
Tax on bread bad — a
tax disguised in the form
of a monopoly to home
corngrowers worse

A tax on bread is bad enough A tax on bread payable directly and without disguise payable to government in
trust for the community at large, is bad enough. But a tax payable indirectly
and in a disguised form, by means of a monopoly established
in favour of growers at home by exclusion put upon growers in foreign states is worse, much worse
than would be a tax imposed
in a direct way
as above
But a tax on medicine
operating as an efficient cause of a monopoly, as above
is worse than a tax on bread, a tax on justice is worse than
a tax on bread: and a tax on justice in the shape of a fee
payable to individuals is worse than a tax payable to government
in trust for the community at large.

39
Reasons
1 Of a direct tax the
benefit would accrue to
the public at large — of a
monopoly to the corngrowers
alone 2 Monopoly productive
of fluctuation
of price

1 A tax on bread imposed in a disguised form, under
by a means monopoly given given to the the class of landowners is worse.
Mischievous to the people then would be a tax be an undisguised tax/imposition in virtue of which
each individual would have to pay to the same amount for whatever
portion of bread he consumes. More mischievous? Why? Answer. Because
were the form in which the imposition burthen was laid upon the shoulders
of the people thus direct and undisguised, the benefit derived
from it would be disposed of in such sort as to take off the
pressure of burthen to the same amount from other sources in
such sort that from of the relief then afforded all the members of the
community non- land-owners and land owners together would have
an equal share: whereas when it acts in the way of monopoly
the benefit gives the whole of it into the pockets of the land owners,
non land-owners having no share in it. 2. Because it is productive
of fluctuation of price, from which persons of class experience
in proportion to the amount pains of disappointment, greater than the
corresponde pleasure derived from the correspondent cheapness: fluctuations
the scale of which made were the monopoly abolished and all perpetual
admission given to the materials of bread from all foreign nations, would
be reduced at both ends.




Identifier: | JB/081/269/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.

Date_1

1829-06-06

Marginal Summary Numbering

38 or 12, 39

Box

081

Main Headings

petition for justice

Folio number

269

Info in main headings field

petitions

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c6

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

george bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

26056

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