No Taxes in the Kingdom of God
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When in Bahá'í history
New York (today: New York, USA)
On 13 April 1912 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spoke at the home of Marjorie Morten in New York. After the meeting, worn out, He went upstairs to rest, but people kept streaming toward His room. Juliet Thompson recorded what followed.
A young single-taxer began to question Him. “What message shall I take to my friends?” he ended.
“Tell them,” laughed the Master (that wonderful spicy humour in His face) “to come into the Kingdom of God. There they will find plenty of land and there are no taxes on it.”
(A single-taxer was a follower of Henry George, who advocated a single tax on profits from the sale of land.)
Source: The Diary of Juliet Thompson, 13 April 1912.
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