The ABC of taxation

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Identifikator:: 1010741608

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-21094

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin

Title:: The ABC of taxation

Edition:: Fourth edition specially revised

Place of publication:: Garden City, New York

Publisher:: Doubleday, Page & Company

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (236 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. Other essays and addresses

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g6 THE A B C OF TAXATION Coming upon Spencer’s lost field, Henry George formed a new line of battle, changed the war cry of “equal right to land” to “joint or common right to rent,” picked up the shepherd’s sling of taxation, the familiar weapon which had escaped Herbert Spencer’s attention, and gradually dispelling the mists of the old conflict, won the day. It is my opinion that few men have been more mis apprehended, misinterpreted, and hence misjudged, than Henry George, and this, too, not infrequently, by zealous friends. This is especially true of the inter pretation of his ultimate views regarding land tenure. Few people know of the distinction made by Henry George, by the science of economics, and by statute law between private property in land and private property in the things produced by labour, or between the private ownership of land and the private posses sion of land. Therefore, if you say that private property in land is unjust, or that private ownership of land is unjust, the tendency is to close many minds to further consideration of a statement which to them savours too strongly of confiscation. One may attack with vigour the private appropriation of ground rent (what land is worth for use), and be easily understood, while an attack upon private ownership in land is very apt to be misunderstood. Able men sometimes assert that the aim of the single tax movement is the com plete subversion and overthrow of the institution of private property in land. This confusion arises partly from a lack of clear understanding as to the meaning of terms, and partly from applying to land the theory of ownership which in law applies only to other things. Coming to an analysis of the different terms, posses

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