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As to the second part of this Discourse, the Poor, I have shewed how this Habit of Laziness and Begging first crept in amongst us, how it may be prevented from spreading farther, howImployments may be provided for those who are willing to work, and a force put on those thatare able, and how the Impotent Poor may be maintained, and those whose Labour will notsupport their Charge assisted.
In the last place, I have proposed general Rules for raising of Taxes to carry on the present War, and better Husbanding the Money when raised, wherein I have rather aimed to shew that thesethings may be done, than published Methods for doing them, which (because they would swellthis Discourse above it designed Brevity) are omitted here, as being more proper to be laidbefore a Committee of Parliament.
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Trade in general.THE general Notions of a National Trade whereby it may be Discovered whither a Kingdom Gets or Looses by its Managment are things well worth our Consideration. It being possible fora Nation to grow Poor in the Main whilst private Persons encrease their Fortunes: For as in theBody Natural, if you draw out Blood faster then the Sangufying parts can suply, it mustnecessarily wast and decay. So where the Exports of a Nation in Product and Manufactures areoutballanced by Imports fit only to be consumed at home, though one Man may get by theLuxury of another; the Wealth of that Nation must decay, all one as a private Person whoseExpences exceeds his Incomes, though he may for some time live on the Main, yet in the endhe must fall to ruin.