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National Council of Defense

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Every paragraph the index cites under National Council of Defense, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

Paper 72 · Government on a Neighboring Planet

7. Taxation

72:7.7The fed­eral gov­ern­ment can­not go in debt, and a three-fourths ref­er­en­dum is re­quired be­fore any state can bor­row ex­cept for pur­poses of war. Since the fed­eral gov­ern­ment can­not in­cur debt, in the event of war the Na­tional Coun­cil of De­fense is em­pow­ered to as­sess the states for money, as well as for men and ma­te­ri­als, as it may be re­quired. But no debt may run for more than twenty-five years.

72:7.8–13 · six paragraphs not cited here ·

72:7.8In­come to sup­port the fed­eral gov­ern­ment is de­rived from the fol­low­ing five sources:

72:7.91. Im­port du­ties. All im­ports are sub­ject to a tar­iff de­signed to pro­tect the stan­dard of liv­ing on this con­ti­nent, which is far above that of any other na­tion on the planet. These tar­iffs are set by the high­est in­dus­trial court af­ter both houses of the in­dus­trial congress have rat­i­fied the rec­om­men­da­tions of the chief ex­ec­u­tive of eco­nomic af­fairs, who is the joint ap­pointee of these two leg­isla­tive bod­ies. The up­per in­dus­trial house is elected by la­bor, the lower by cap­i­tal.

72:7.102. Roy­al­ties. The fed­eral gov­ern­ment en­cour­ages in­ven­tion and orig­i­nal cre­ations in the ten re­gional lab­o­ra­to­ries, as­sist­ing all types of ge­niuses—artists, au­thors, and sci­en­tists—and pro­tect­ing their patents. In re­turn the gov­ern­ment takes one half the prof­its re­al­ized from all such in­ven­tions and cre­ations, whether per­tain­ing to ma­chines, books, artistry, plants, or an­i­mals.

72:7.113. In­her­i­tance tax. The fed­eral gov­ern­ment levies a grad­u­ated in­her­i­tance tax rang­ing from one to fifty per cent, de­pend­ing on the size of an es­tate as well as on other con­di­tions.

72:7.124. Mil­i­tary equip­ment. The gov­ern­ment earns a con­sid­er­able sum from the leas­ing of mil­i­tary and naval equip­ment for com­mer­cial and recre­ational us­ages.

72:7.135. Nat­u­ral re­sources. The in­come from nat­u­ral re­sources, when not fully re­quired for the spe­cific pur­poses des­ig­nated in the char­ter of fed­eral state­hood, is turned into the na­tional trea­sury.

72:7.14Fed­eral ap­pro­pri­a­tions, ex­cept war funds as­sessed by the Na­tional Coun­cil of De­fense, are orig­i­nated in the up­per leg­isla­tive house, con­curred in by the lower house, ap­proved by the chief ex­ec­u­tive, and fi­nally val­i­dated by the fed­eral bud­get com­mis­sion of one hun­dred. The mem­bers of this com­mis­sion are nom­i­nated by the state gov­er­nors and elected by the state leg­is­la­tures to serve for twenty-four years, one quar­ter be­ing elected ev­ery six years. Ev­ery six years this body, by a three-fourths bal­lot, chooses one of its num­ber as chief, and he thereby be­comes di­rec­tor-con­trol­ler of the fed­eral trea­sury.

Paper 72 · Government on a Neighboring Planet

11. Military Preparedness

72:11.1Grad­u­ates of the fed­eral mil­i­tary schools may be com­mis­sioned as “guard­i­ans of civ­i­liza­tion” in seven ranks, in ac­cor­dance with abil­ity and ex­pe­ri­ence, by the pres­i­dent of the Na­tional Coun­cil of De­fense. This coun­cil con­sists of twenty-five mem­bers, nom­i­nated by the high­est pa­ren­tal, ed­u­ca­tional, and in­dus­trial tri­bu­nals, con­firmed by the fed­eral su­preme court, and pre­sided over ex of­fi­cio by the chief of staff of co-or­di­nated mil­i­tary af­fairs. Such mem­bers serve un­til they are sev­enty years of age.

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