The Differential Tax
The principle of the Differential Tax is that a different proportion of taxation, as well as a different amount, may be applied to men in different circumstances. It has a chief function to perform in...
View ArticleG.K. Chesterton’s Distributism
The home is the place where the important things happen. The economy is the place where the most unimportant things happen. The backwardness of the situation is something constantly pointed out by...
View ArticleThere Was a Socialist
It is not Socialism for the State to endow hospitals, any more than for the State to support reformatories. Socialism is not a condition in which the government can help hard cases or protect and patch...
View ArticleCommunism Has Failed
There are four main proposals offered for setting things right again. The first three are false remedies, the fourth is the true remedy, which is the restoration of property, the building up of...
View ArticleThe Guild System
Every kind of good would flow from the re-establishment of the Guild, and without the re-establishment of the Guild the effort to maintain well-distributed property, even if we had already achieved...
View ArticleTwo Difficulties
Injustices must be removed, bad systems changed, human values made effective once more in their right order. But these things cannot be done so long as the men and women of the nation are ignorant,...
View ArticleThe Restoration of Property
The change in philosophy is our root difficulty, but the second is that it has produced a certain state of society. It is a state in which by far the greater part of men are attuned to being wage...
View ArticleNationalization
A society in which the mass of men have no experience of ownership, a society in which the mass are long used to living upon a regular and frequently recurring dole, is a society which sees in...
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