But they insist that a (merely) legitimate distribution can suffice to generate duties of repair.
Second, a state has legitimate authority to the extent that its directives generate duties in citizens to obey.
(It remains logically possible, of course, that duties stemming from group rights will fall upon individual persons, just as it is possible that the rights of individual persons will generate duties for groups).
In The Metaphysics of Morals (1797), Kant argues for specific duties to oneself generated by the general duty to respect humanity in our persons, including duties to not engage in suicide, misuse of our sexual powers, drunkenness and other unrestrained indulgence of inclination, lying, self-deception, avarice, and servility.
Thus, the universal law formulation generates a duty to φ if and only if the Humanity formula generates a duty to φ, (and so on for the other formulations).
Each person's right generates a duty to respect that right on the part of every other person.
It follows as a corollary of the normal justification thesis that a legitimate authority generates a duty to be obeyed.
In each of these cases, the right, insofar as it is a group right, is a right held by the relevant group qua group, and the duties generated by the right are duties owed to the group as a whole rather to its members severally.
It also understands that there will be no obligation to take income tax powers to access this full amount - the sums generated by Stamp Duty and Landfill Tax will be sufficient as income streams.
Unlike the duty to promote the good, the duties of fidelity, reparation and gratitude rest on personal relations with others, which generate special rather than general duties (FE 76, 186).
