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 31 - 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 31 - 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 31 - 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 30 - 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 31 - 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 29 - 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 - If ojie wishes to define more clearly the ethical meaning of work, it is this truth that one must particularly keep in mind. 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 32 - 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.
الصفحة 29 - This is how your king will treat you. He will make soldiers of your sons; some of them will serve in his war chariots, others in his cavalry, and others will run before his chariots. He will make some of them officers in charge of a thousand men, and others in charge of fifty men. Your sons will have to plow his fields, harvest his crops, and make his weapons and the equipment for his chariots. Your daughters will have to make perfumes for him and work as his cooks and his bakers. He will take your...
الصفحة 32 - Everything contained in the concept of capital in the strict sense is only a collection of things. Man, as the subject of work and independent of the work he does -- man alone is a person. This truth has important and decisive consequences.