Titration may be considered harmful to landlords, because it levies domestically grown grains without restricting the import of foreign grains, so it acts like an import subsidy. If, in order to protect landlords from the impact of the reduction in land demand that this subsidy will inevitably cause, the imported grain is also subject to the same tax as the domestic grain, and the proceeds are handed over to the state, there is no fairer and more reasonable way than this; Because everything delivered to the country through this tax will reduce other taxes that must be levied for government expenditure; However, if this tax is only to increase the funds paid to the church, then even if it does increase the total production as a whole, it will still reduce the part allocated to the various production classes. Let's look at an example:

If the trade of woolen cloth is completely free, the price of woolen cloth sold by domestic manufacturers may be cheaper than the price at which we can import woolen cloth. If the domestic manufacturers are taxed instead of the importers, then the capital will leave the woolen weaving industry harmfully and move to the manufacturing of other commodities, because it may be cheaper to import woolen cloth than to make it in China. If imported wool is taxed, wool will be woven again in China. Consumers originally bought domestic woolen cloth because it was cheaper than foreign products; Later, I bought foreign woolen cloth, because foreign products that do not pay taxes are cheaper than domestic products that pay taxes; Finally, I bought domestic woolen cloth, because when both are taxed, Chinese products are cheaper. In the last case, he paid the highest price for woolen cloth; But all the overpayments go to the state. In the second case, he paid more than in the first case, but the extra money he paid was not attributed to the state; This is the price increase caused by production difficulties, and it happens because the bondage of taxes takes away our most convenient means of production.