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1818 Novr. 24. Official Economy
1818 Novr. 24.

Official Economy

Ch. Expence minimized

Patriotic Auction.

? Objection - Poor excluded.

2. Remain to be considered the interests of individuals separately

taken, considered in the character of persons capable of entertaining the desire of

becoming Competitors.

If the consideration of this interest is to become prevalent, observe

the practical arrangement the necessity of which is assumed by it and involved in it.

For the purpose of letting in all individuals without distinction to become

Competitors for a share in the mass of emolument in question the amount of it must be

levied by a Tax or mass of taxes: by Taxes the burthen of which must unless an

acknowledged principle of Taxation be for some unassigned reason departed from be

imposed in equal proportion upon all individuals alike without distinction on the

ground of sects or age or any other circumstance.

But the class of persons to whom upon this supposition the chance of

benefit would be opened, can never be so extensive as the class of persons on whom on

this same supposition so many shares in the burthen would be imposed. The result

would be therefore that for the purpose of affording to the comparatively few a share

so many shares in a benefit to a given amount a burthen to a correspondent and equal

amount would be to be imposed on the comparatively many. For example for composing a

mass of benefit from all participation of which the class of females in a single

state and the class of non adults would necessarily be included a burthen to an equal

amount would be imposed - a burthen of which these two classes repectively would be

subject to their full share.

Of the proposed arrangement involved in the objection here /thus/

endeavoured to be answered what was the object or end in view? Answer Equality in the

distribution of benefits and burthens. But what will be the result? Answer Not

equality but the reverse.

Of
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    Description: 1818 Novr. 24.

    Official Economy

    Ch. Expence minimized

    ?. Objection - Poor excluded

    ?. Objection to the sale of Official Salaries on Government account,

    Exclusion put upon all but the correspondently affluent - answered.

    To this expedient for minimizing the amount /expence/ of official pay,

    an objection has been heard to be offered: on this plan i.e. an exclusion will be put

    upon all candidates other than those who comparatively and relatively speaking, are in a

    state of affluence.

    Answer - If this objection is to be regarded /acted upon/ as prevalent

    and conclusive, it must be in consideration of one or other of the interests affected by

    the decision /at stake/.

    These interests are 1. The interests of the public in respect of the

    branch in question of the public service whatever it be. 2. The interest of individuals

    considered as capable of entertaining a desire to become Competitors for the masses of

    net advantage in all shapes whatsoever they may be which it may be deemed advisable to

    attach to the respective offices.

    1. As far as concerns the interest of the public taken in the aggregate the question is

    already decided: the difference between the quantity of money and money's worth which

    according to the scheme of frugality in question would be sufficient to be expended on

    the score of pay and the quantity which without the benefit of it would be to be

    expended is so much which in the one case would be saved, in the other case expended in

    Waste unless and in so far as any evil effect can be shown to be produced or good effect

    excluded by the adoption of it.
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    '.2. Creoles unwilling

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    '' - to Subrulers unendurable. B.

    Whether it remitts to Spain any money or no, the Ultramaria province must /in the first place/ defray the expence of its own establishment: or else, instead of remitting to Spain, it must receive from thence a balance.

    This expence - supposing it confined within the bounds of necessity, and the amount of it (including the mass of emolument attached to the several portions of the /provincial and other/ local official establishment) given to natives of the provinces and unless /in so far as a material interchange has place among the province/ to an [...?] this expence - they would have no room for grudging, and would not grudge. Under these conditions, due regard would be paid to the interests of both classes: to that of the subject many by the moderateness of the burthen imposed by the taxes: to that of the ruling few by the equality of the distribution made of the benefit composed of the sweets of office.

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    Of the functionaries the field of whose duty will be in a is mentioned as being to be found in a province, and thence in every Ultramarian province, I will beg your attention to three distinguishable classes: the mark of distinction I take from the circumstances of these receiving, or, not as far as appears, not receiving official emolument. In Class the first I place those for whom it is certain that emolument in a pecuniary shape is designed: These are The members of the several establishments following

    1. The Ecclesiastical establishment

    2. The Judicial Establishment

    3. The Military Establishment: that branch

    which belongs to the armed Service with its Artillery and other stores [?]: that portion of the army the destination of which is to be quartered in the Province.

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    '. 1. Creoles willing

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    general are subject to /suffer from/ the burthen, Spaniards in general do not enjoy

    the benefit, the consequence is that in so far as restraint in any such unproductive

    shape as this is imposed on Ultramrians, it is for the purpose of conferring the

    corespondent benefit - not on Spaniards /the Spanish people/ at large, but in a

    particular part only of the Spanish people, and that a comparatively very small one:

    namely that part which it is supposed while be received in the shape of profit of

    trade by the producers or vendors of such goods.

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    Spain, saving to the people in Spain taxes to that same amount in the case of the

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