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Spencer Heath Archive
Item 2247
Typed page for promotion of Citadel, Market and Altar
1942?
Mankind weeps, fights, and bleeds for security and peace. And men dream of a world union, of a power over powers, of an EMPIRE of peace. Can IT guard and serve but not enslave; TAX and rule, yet not destroy?
Why must ANY government, as a SERVICE, have at the last no support but forced levies, causing insecurity, counter-violence, revolution and war? No other service takes money or property by violence from any whom it serves. Why must public services — governments — do so? Can such force against a people save them FROM force? — Or must their protection be had by FREE CONTRACT — purchase and payment — as all other true services are?
Every community pays for PRIMARY public services — a peaceable administration, by a CONTRACTUAL mode of distribution, of its sites and resources, and thereby of all its public advantages — AUTOMATICALLY, with the incomes and values SITE OWNERS by these SERVICES earn and receive. Few are now aware of this PRIMARY public service to which these payments AUTOMATICALLY respond, yet it might well be EXTENDED to provide PROTECTION and all other desired PUBLIC SERVICES, with ENORMOUS PROFITS to the OWNERS and GUARANTEED FREEDOM and PROSPERITY to ALL.
It is only necessary that publicly articulate persons discover and make well known this SELF-FINANCING PUBLIC SERVICE that creates its own revenues, without taxation, endowment or alms. OWNERS OF THE SITES then will organize to save their communities from force and waste and supply further services to make still larger revenues — just as ANY sound business grows — until taxation is out-moded and force becomes but a service of protection, alike against public violence as against private crimes.
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