ll go to the general storehouse.

Fifth, if any treasures shall be found on the land they should be devoted
to this storehouse.

All these revenues will be assembled in this storehouse.

As to the first, the tenths or tithes: we will consider a farmer, one of
the peasants. We will look into his income. We will find out, for
instance, what is his annual revenue and also what are his expenditures.
Now, if his income be equal to his expenditures, from such a farmer
nothing whatever will be taken. That is, he will not be subjected to
taxation of any sort, needing as he does all his income. Another farmer
may have expenses running up to one thousand dollars we will say, and his
income is two thousand dollars. From such an one a tenth will be required,
because he has a surplus. But if his income be ten thousand dollars and
his expenses one thousand dollars or his income twenty thousand dollars,
he will have to pay as taxes, one-fourth. If his income be one hundred
thousand dollars and his expenses five thousand, one-third will he have to
pay because he has still a surplus since his expenses are five thousand
and his income one hundred thousand. If he pays, say, thirty-five thousand
dollars, in addition to the expenditure of five thousand he still has
sixty thousand left. But if his expenses be ten thousand and his income
two hundred thousand then he must give an even half because ninety
thousand will be in that case the sum remaining. Such a scale as this will
determine allotment of taxes. All the income from such revenues will go to
this general storehouse.

Then there must be considered such emergencies as follows: a certain
farmer whose expenses run up to ten thousand dollars and whose income is
only five thousand, he will receive necessary expenses from the
storehouse. Five thousand dollars will be allotted to him so he will not
be in need.

Then the orphans will be looked after, all of whose expenses will be taken
care of. The cripples in the village--all their expenses will be looked
after. The poor in the village--their necessary expenses will be defrayed.
And other members who for valid reasons are incapacitated--the blind, the
old, the deaf--their comfort must be looked after. In the village no one
will remain in need or in want. All will live in the utmost comfort and
welfare. Yet no schism will assail the general order of the body politic.

Hence the expenses or expenditures of the general storehouse are now m