Tax Policies: Implications for U.S. Agriculture : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, February 13, 1985U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985 - 68 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 30 - Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.
الصفحة 30 - Work is a good thing for man ~ a good thing for his humanity -- because through work man not only transforms nature, adapting it to his own needs, but he also achieves fulfillment as a human being and indeed in a sense becomes "more a human being.
الصفحة 30 - And yet in spite of all this toil - perhaps, in a sense, because of it - work is a good thing for man. Even though it bears the mark of a "bonum arduum," in the terminology of St. Thomas, (18) this does not take away the fact that, as such, it is a good thing for man. It is not only good in the sense that it is useful or something to enjoy; it is also good as being something worthy, that is to say, something that corresponds to man's dignity, that expresses this dignity and increases it.
الصفحة 30 - It is a fundamental principle of social philosophy, fixed and unchangeable, that one should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry. So, too, it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and a disturbance of right order, to transfer to the larger and higher collectivity functions which can be performed and provided for by lesser and subordinate bodies.
الصفحة 30 - From this it follows that the economic prosperity of any people is to be assessed not so much from the sum total of goods and wealth possessed as from the distribution of goods according to norms of justice, so that everyone in the community can develop and perfect himself.
الصفحة 29 - As a result the common good, that is, the sum of those conditions of social life which allow social groups and their individual members relatively thorough and ready access to their own fulfillment...
الصفحة 28 - He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.
الصفحة 31 - ... continent, nor limited to the societies which have already attained a certain level of development and progress. The world of agriculture, which provides society with the goods it needs for its daily sustenance, is of fundamental importance. The conditions of the rural population and of agricultural work vary from place to place, and the social position of agricultural workers differs from country to country. This depends not only on the level of development of agricultural technology but also,...
الصفحة 31 - ... agriculture to a very advanced level, the right to work can be infringed when the farm workers are denied the possibility of sharing in decisions concerning their services, or when they are denied the right to free association with a view to their just advancement socially, culturally and economically. In many situations radical and urgent changes are therefore needed in order to restore to agriculture — and to rural people — their just value as the basis for a healthy economy, within the...
الصفحة 31 - This truth which is part of the abiding heritage of the Church's teaching must always be emphasized with reference to the question of the labor system with regard to the whole socioeconomic system. We must emphasize and give prominence to the primacy of man in the production process - the primacy of man over things.