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The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

David Ricardo

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
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Beer Food Price Raise Tax
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.
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Consume Effect Fall Luxury Price Profit Tax
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.
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Commodity Doubt Increase Money Value
The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.
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Greatness Money Profit Rate Value
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
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Commodity Possession Require Source Value
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
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Capital Class Commercial Encouragement Prosperity
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
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Earth Original Paid Rent Soil
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
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Commodity Machine Production Rise Wage
But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.
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Clear Compare Connection Demand Labor Necessary Price
Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.
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Determination Division Law Production
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
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Money Production Profit Real Rise Value
No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.
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Commodity Enjoyment Increase Trade Value
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Material Money Tools Work
I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.
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Greatness Honesty Mindset Powerful Thinking
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
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Fall Labour Profit Rise Value
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.
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Current exchange Money Prevent Variation

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