- 07 May 2015 07:21
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If you believe Selby The Revolution in Virginia 1775-83, in 1781, in the Northern Neck of Virginia, 60% of white males owned 200 acres or more.
Unfortunately, when it is known that Virginian subsistence farmers (landowners) hired themselves out as agricultural labourers and rented small parcels of land to augment their meagre holdings, the '60%' and '200 acres' are the only numbers that Selby gives I would trust.
If you believe Rohrer Wandering Souls: Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865, in 1789 in Shrewsbury, East Jersey, 23.6% of taxpayers had holdings of less than 50 acres.
All of them if you insist that taxes were levied in accordance with article 8.
Freeholders paid the bulk of the taxes.
implement verb: put (a decision, plan, agreement, etc.) into effect.
apportion verb: to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution.
The rule:
Federal taxes and expenses could not be apportioned according to the rule as "a satisfactory valuation of houses and lands had never yet been completed, and the difficulties in making such a valuation seemed nearly insuperable."*
* Pitkin A Political and Civil History of the United States of America
"All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" Orwell
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How many were landowners?
If you believe Selby The Revolution in Virginia 1775-83, in 1781, in the Northern Neck of Virginia, 60% of white males owned 200 acres or more.
George Mason to George Mason Jr. June 3, 1781 wrote:The typical white Virginian male was a small farmer [who] had access to no more than 200 acres, at most a slave or two, and some cattle.
Unfortunately, when it is known that Virginian subsistence farmers (landowners) hired themselves out as agricultural labourers and rented small parcels of land to augment their meagre holdings, the '60%' and '200 acres' are the only numbers that Selby gives I would trust.
ingliz wrote:Because of their chronic shortage of cash, some southern yeomen, particularly younger men, hired themselves out as agricultural workers when they needed hard currency.
subsistence farmers
If you believe Rohrer Wandering Souls: Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865, in 1789 in Shrewsbury, East Jersey, 23.6% of taxpayers had holdings of less than 50 acres.
How many owned land of enough value to pay more in land value tax than they ended up paying in other taxes?
All of them if you insist that taxes were levied in accordance with article 8.
ingliz wrote:Between the Yorktown victory of 1781 and the federal assumption of state debts in 1790, Americans were hit with taxes that averaged three or four times those of the colonial era.
Freeholders paid the bulk of the taxes.
look up "implemented" and "apportioned."
implement verb: put (a decision, plan, agreement, etc.) into effect.
Truth to Power wrote:Article 8 was never implemented
apportion verb: to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution.
The rule:
VIII, Articles of Confederation wrote:in proportion to the value of all land within each State
Federal taxes and expenses could not be apportioned according to the rule as "a satisfactory valuation of houses and lands had never yet been completed, and the difficulties in making such a valuation seemed nearly insuperable."*
Truth to Power wrote:I'm sure land value also dropped
* Pitkin A Political and Civil History of the United States of America
The Marxist is only interested...
"All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" Orwell
E l/r -10 : L/A -7.64