It is not the tax gatherer who comes to ask you your part of the tax, but you pay it to Mondor, the manufacturer, every time you buy your hatchets, your trowels, and your planes.

Then they say to you: If you do not pay this tax, Mondor can work no longer, and his employes, John and James, will be without labor.

If this tax was remitted, would you not get work yourselves, and on your own account too?
And, then, be easy, when Mondor has no longer this soft method of obtaining his profit by a tax, he will use his wits to turn his loss into a gain, and John and James will not be dismissed.

Then all will be profit _for all_.
You will persist, perhaps, saying: "We understand that after the reform there will be in general more work than before, but in the meanwhile John and James will be on the street." To which I answer: First.

When employment changes its place only to increase, the man who has two arms and a heart is not long on the street.
Second.