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It is in vain in a country whose great fund is land to hope to
lay the publick charge of the Government on anything else; there at
last it will terminate. The merchant (do what you can) will not bear
it, the labourer cannot, and therefore the landholder must: and
whether he were best to do it by laying it directly where it will at
last settle, or by letting it come to him by the sinking of his rents,
... let him consider.
Given that the economy is managed so that a certain percentage of people must be losers, the majority stands to gain by ensuring that the losers are selected
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