Farming and Taxation

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Mencius said, “Improve the fields and reduce tax levies, and the people can become prosperous.”

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“Take and consume food in its proper seasons, and use resources according to ritual; wealth will then be inexhaustible.”

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“People cannot live without water and fire. If someone knocks at a door at dusk or night asking for water or fire, no one refuses; that is what abundance looks like.”

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“A sage rules the realm so that beans and grain are as abundant as water and fire. When beans and grain are so plentiful, how could the people fail to be humane?”

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