Volume II by Thomas Paine]@TWC D-Link book Volume II 59/118 Allowance of three shillings per week for life to fifteen thousand disbanded soldiers, and a proportionate allowance to the officers of the disbanded corps. Increase of pay to the remaining soldiers of L19,500 annually. The same allowance to the disbanded navy, and the same increase of pay, as to the army. Abolition of the commutation tax. Plan of a progressive tax, operating to extirpate the unjust and unnatural law of primogeniture, and the vicious influence of the aristocratical system.*[39] There yet remains, as already stated, one million of surplus taxes. |