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Thomas Paine, 1792. Agrarian Justice is the title of a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in 1797, which proposed that those who possess cultivated land owe the community a ground rent, which justifies an estate tax to fund universal old-age and disability pensions and a fixed sum to be paid to all citizens upon reaching maturity.
In the United Kingdom and United States, the idea can be traced back to Thomas Paine's essay, Agrarian Justice, [3] which is also considered one of the earliest proposals for a social security system. Thomas Paine summarized his view by stating that "Men did not make the earth.
In response to Paine's "Agrarian Justice", Thomas Spence wrote "The Rights of Infants" wherein he argued that Paine's plan was not beneficial to impoverished people because landlords would just keep raising land prices, further enriching themselves rather than giving the commonwealth an equal chance. [135]
Arguably the first to propose a system with great similarities to a national basic income in the United States was Thomas Paine, in Agrarian Justice, 1796/1797.His idea was that a few "basic incomes" to young people, in their 20s, financed by tax on heritage, was highly needed and also a matter of justice.
Thomas Paine, a philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, advocated a capital grant and an unconditional citizens pension in his 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice. [ 118 ]
Henry George, Thomas Paine: Alaska (Permanent Fund Dividend) Agrarian Justice, Progress and Poverty: Universal dividend: Dependent on a portion of production, proxied by a fixed and flat tax on personal income and corporate net profits, distributed flat as a non-taxed benefit among all residents or citizens over a certain age. John Moser
Paine, Thomas. Agrarian Justice (1794) Patterson, James G. In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republican, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland After 1798 (2008) Roberts, Henry L. Rumania: Political Problems of an Agrarian State (1951). Zagorin, Perez.
Books by Thomas Paine (2 P) ... Agrarian Justice; The American Crisis; C. Common Sense This page was last edited on 26 July 2014, at 20:42 (UTC) ...