The principles of an equitable and efficient system of finance, founded upon self-evident, universal, and invariable principles, capable of diminishing taxes and poor-rates, reviving and permanently supporting agriculture, trade, commerce, wealth, & happiness, demonstrating that the existing system of finance is capricious, impolitic, and improvident, injurious to liberty, property, and legislation : proving the necessity of repealing all existing taxes, both general and local: and adopting one, simple, equitable, & efficient, grounded upon a scale, just, wise, and unchangeable : By the adoption of this plan the dread of the rich would be removed, the distress of the poor relieved, and the confidence to all restored : founded upon the same system ... a commutation of tithes is proposed, by which the property of the church would be guaranteed, the dignity of the clergy augmented, and the irritation of the people tranquilized

Wilkinson, Harrison

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