Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Print this Page [1-1] of 1Posts from David Allan Cole, Lisbon ND 58054David Allan Cole, Lisbon ND 58054 1 Reply David Allan Cole, Lisbon ND 58054 3/12/14 re: Thomas Jefferson quote "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." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, October 28,1785. ME 19:17, Papers 8:682 SaveOk2 Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print