Defending Paine’s agrarian justice and the “Ground-rent”
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Resumo: | Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice deserves more attention than it has received, for in it Paine provides a foundational case for a broad social welfare program that is absent in his better-known Rights of Man. In this paper, I explain Paine’s case in Agrarian Justice, and consider the objection that the main revenue source Paine proposes—the “ground-rent”—is insufficient to fund the social welfare programs he proposes because in the production of value the contribution attributable to natural resources is insignificant. I argue that the ground-rent justifies levying a tax not just on the value of the natural resources used in the production of value, but on a portion of the value of the labor applied to those resources, and therefore can be a significant revenue source. Similar considerations apply to resource-based taxation schemes suggested by others, including Henry George, Thomas Pogge, and some modern “left-libertarians”. |
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Defending Paine’s agrarian justice and the “Ground-rent”Original ArticlesThomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice deserves more attention than it has received, for in it Paine provides a foundational case for a broad social welfare program that is absent in his better-known Rights of Man. In this paper, I explain Paine’s case in Agrarian Justice, and consider the objection that the main revenue source Paine proposes—the “ground-rent”—is insufficient to fund the social welfare programs he proposes because in the production of value the contribution attributable to natural resources is insignificant. I argue that the ground-rent justifies levying a tax not just on the value of the natural resources used in the production of value, but on a portion of the value of the labor applied to those resources, and therefore can be a significant revenue source. Similar considerations apply to resource-based taxation schemes suggested by others, including Henry George, Thomas Pogge, and some modern “left-libertarians”.A Justiça Agrária de Thomas Paine merece mais atenção do que aquela que até agora lhe foi dedicada, pois nela Paine estabelece um argumento fundacional para um programa abrangente de bem-estar social que não se encontra no seu mais famoso Os Direitos do Homem. Neste artigo, explico o argumento de Paine em Justiça Agrária e considero a objecção segundo a qual a principal fonte de receitas aí proposta – a “renda fundiária” – seria insuficiente para financiar o programa de bem-estar social que propõe, na medida em que a contribuição dos recursos naturais para a produção de valor é insignificante. Argumento que a renda fundiária justifica a imposição de um imposto não apenas sobre o valor dos recursos naturais usados na produção de valor, mas sobre uma porção do valor do trabalho aplicado sobre esses recursos, e que, portanto, ela pode ser uma fonte significativa de receitas. Considerações similares são aplicáveis aos sistemas de taxação baseados em recursos naturais propostos por outros autores tais como Henry George, Thomas Pogge e alguns libertários de esquerda contemporâneos.Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society - ELACH, University of Minho2023-10-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://doi.org/10.21814/eps.5.1.168eng2184-25822184-2574Weber, Michael E.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-01-29T10:56:47Zoai:journals.uminho.pt:article/5336Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T01:58:43.587054Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice deserves more attention than it has received, for in it Paine provides a foundational case for a broad social welfare program that is absent in his better-known Rights of Man. In this paper, I explain Paine’s case in Agrarian Justice, and consider the objection that the main revenue source Paine proposes—the “ground-rent”—is insufficient to fund the social welfare programs he proposes because in the production of value the contribution attributable to natural resources is insignificant. I argue that the ground-rent justifies levying a tax not just on the value of the natural resources used in the production of value, but on a portion of the value of the labor applied to those resources, and therefore can be a significant revenue source. Similar considerations apply to resource-based taxation schemes suggested by others, including Henry George, Thomas Pogge, and some modern “left-libertarians”. |
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