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tất nhiên, chính xác. Nhưng sự khác biệt chính giữa nợ trong nước và nước ngoài vẫn là viết tắt của: thanh toán lãi suất nợ nước ngoài giảm thu nhập quốc gia và do đó làm cơ sở thuế của nền kinh tế. Vì vậy, điều quan trọng là để tách các phân tích giữa bên ngoài và nội bộ (cung và cầu) những cú sốc. | David Ricardo Principles ofPolitical Economy and Taxation 68 these obvious principles it is not as the legislature benevolently intended to amend the condition of the poor but to deteriorate the condition of both poor and rich instead of making the poor rich they are calculated to make the rich poor and whilst the present laws are in force it is quite in the natural order of things that the fund for the maintenance of the poor should progressively increase till it has absorbed all the net revenue of the country or at least so much of it as the state shall leave to us after satisfying its own never failing demands for the public expenditure.15 This pernicious tendency of these laws is no longer a mystery since it has been fully developed by the able hand of Mr Malthus and every friend to the poor must ardently wish for their abolition. Unfortunately however they have been so long established and the habits of the poor have been so formed upon their operation that to eradicate them with safety from our political system requires the most cautious and skilful management. It is agreed by all who are most friendly to a repeal of these laws that if it be desirable to prevent the most overwhelming distress to those for whose benefit they were erroneously enacted their abolition should be effected by the most gradual steps. It is a truth which admits not a doubt that the comforts and well-being of the poor cannot be permanently secured without some regard on their part or some effort on the part of the legislature to regulate the increase of their numbers and to render less frequent among them early and improvident marriages. The operation of the system of poor laws has been directly contrary to this. They have rendered restraint superfluous and have invited imprudence by offering it a portion of the wages of prudence and industry.16 The nature of the evil points out the remedy. By gradually contracting the sphere of the poor laws by impressing on the poor the value of .