Note 103 — Chapter I · : THE PHYSIOCRATS
R. (Robert) Richards translation
“There would be something to say for this if the rich repaid them by increased wages or additional almsgiving. But the poor give to the rich, and so add to their misery, already sufficiently great. The State demands from those who have nothing to give, and directs all its penalties and exercises all its severity upon the poor.” (Turgot, Œuvres, vol. i, p. 413).
“It would be better for the landed proprietors to pay it direct to the Treasury, and thus save the cost of collection.” (Dupont de Nemours, p. 352.)