418 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Government has money in it treasury. This money can come mainly from taxation levied on the people. A prosperous Government is the best guarantee of good Government.
“The Party thinks that to preach reduction of taxation as a principle and to tell the people that the reduction of taxation even at the sacrifice to useful nation-building activities is in their interest, is to misguide the people and to deceive the poorer classes. This does not mean that the Party wishes to keep the system of taxation as it is. On the contrary the Party sees great objection to the system of taxation now in operation. The Party definitely recognises that the present system of taxation is unjust and weighs heavily on the poorer sections of the population. The Party will endeavour to rectify this inequity in the general system of taxation. The Party has great objections to the present system of leavying land revenue and it will undertake legislation to make it more equitable and more elastic.”
SOCIAL REFORM
Legislation Plans
With regard to social reform :
(1) “The Party will undertake legislation for the advancement of all necessary social reform (i) to prevent social reformers from being outcasted by the orthodox and (ii) to penalise all forms of organised attempts at direct action such as terrorism and boycott to prevent individuals or classes from exercising the rights and liberties given to them by law.
(2) “The Party will undertake legislation to regulate the administration of all public charities with a view to preventing the mismanagement and misapplication of the charity funds and to secure the use of any surplus that may be left over to the advancement of such secular purposes as education etc.
(3) “The Party will undertake legislation to deal with the Problem of beggars and other destitute persons.”
Rural Reconstruction
“The attitude of the Party towards rural reconsturction is :
(1) “The Party will endeavour to make village life cheerful by providing as many amenities of life as may be necessary for the object in view.