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Og Køgeresolutionen lyder således:
Husmandsmødet udtaler:
At, da husmandsbruget som selvstændig driftsform bevislig er
den fordelagtigste form for landbrug, såvel for samfundet som for
den enkelte, og derfor kan ventes at ville blive den almindeligste (og i
fremtiden muligvis den eneste) driftsform for dansk landbrug, kan husmandssagens
udvikling ikke væsentlig bygges på bidrag fra staten eller andre
samfundsklasser, eller på lignende undtagelsesregler, men kun derpå,
at husmandsklassens lige retsstilling med de øvrige samfundsklasser
fuldt ud anerkendes gennem lovgivningen.
Husmandsstanden kræver derfor ikke nogen begunstigelse
for sig ved skattelovgivningen, såsom ophævelse af de faste
grundskatter og tiender, der findes ved jordens overtagelse og godtgøres
ved afkortning i købesummen; deslige byrders afskaffelse vil urettelig
komme et enkelt slægtled til gode, og af dette kun de store grundejere,
til forringelse af samfundsformuen og til tab for de ubemidlede samfundsklasser.
Husmandsstanden må derimod kræve
snarest mulig ophævelse af enhver told og skat, som beregnes af eller
i forhold til forbrugsartikler såsom på fødemidler,
beklædning, møbler, bygning, besætning, redskaber, maskiner,
råstoffer og arbejdsfortjeneste, da alle deslige byrder (ofte med
tillæg af toldbeskyttelse osv.) hviler uretfærdigt tyngende på
arbejdet og de små hjem.
Husmandsstanden må i stedet kræve,
at der til dækning af de offentlige fornødenheder opkræves
skat på den jordværdi, som ikke skyldes enkeltmands arbejde,
men som hidrører fra samfundets vækst og udvikling, og som
særlig ophober sig i storbyerne og ufortjent tilflyder vedkommende
privatspekulanter i stedet for at inddrages i statens og kommunernes kasse.
Deslige byrder vil ikke tynge arbejdet,
men tværtimod gøre jorden billigere og derved lette adgangen
for hver mand til at få eget hjem.
Husmandsmødet i Køge opfordrer herved
landets husmandsorganisationer til at slutte sig til dette program i skattesagen,
og opfordrer de politiske partier, der ønsker støtte fra husmandsstandens
side, til at virke for disse kravs optagelse på partiprogrammet og
deres gennemførelse som lov under de forestående forhandlinger
på rigsdagen om en skattereform.
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And in English
(From The IU Conference, 1926)
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The KOGE-RESOLUTION
The greatest organized force in Denmark
making for the taxation of land values and the abolition of the taxes upon
industry and consumption are the small landholders, themselves owners of
land, and now counting some 100,000 in number. They took the question into
politics in 1902, with the adoption of their now well-known resolution passed
at their Convention of Koge in that year. After a lecture held by Mr. Sophus
Berthelsen the resolution was drafted and unanimously adopted.
It reads as follows:
As small farms and independent husbandry have proved to
be the most advantageous form of agriculture, in the interests both of the
community and the individual, and may therefore be expected to become the
most general (and in future possibly the only) system of Danish agriculture,
our occupation and progress cannot be virtually supported by any help from
the State or from other classes in the community. We can only prosper if the
law fully recognizes that the small-holders and all other classes in the
community have equal rights.
The small holders, therefore, do not ask for
any favours in the way of taxation. We do demand the earliest possible
removal of all tariffs and taxes levied upon articles of consumption, such
as food, clothes, furniture, buildings, stocks, tools, machines, raw materials
and the products of industry, as all these burdens (often increased by
fiscal protection), are pressing with an unjust weight upon labour and
the small homes.
In place of these taxes we demand, for the
provision of revenue for public needs, the taxation of land value, which
is due to no person's individual labour, but arises from the growth and
development of the community, reaches enormous figures, especially in the
large towns, and is appropriated as an unearned gain by private speculators
who have no title to it, instead of being paid into the public treasuries
of the State and municipal authorities. The taxation of land value would
not burden labour but, on the contrary, cheapen land and make it easier
for every man to obtain his own home.
The meeting of small-holders in Koge, therefore
exhorts all other small-holders' organizations in the country to subscribe
to this policy in the matter of taxation, and calls upon the political parties,
that look for the support of the small-holders, to place this demand on
their programme, and to carry it by legislation through Parliament as a
tax reform.
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