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

Collection:: Economics Books

PRIVATE PROPERTY IN LAND 103 ownership of land, in the most positive terms; and he is right. . . . To haggle about the difference between possession and ownership of land is mere word-catching. But Mr. George uses the term “ownership” (i. e., private ownership) in the most positive way. Neither he nor myself sets up absolute ownership. Therefore, it follows of necessity that the only ground of difference between the advocates of the single tax system, who concur with IV^r. George in admitting the absolute necessity of private ownership of land, under suitable conditions, to whiclr all shall be subject alike, is as to the conditions under which that private ownership and possession shall be granted, and under which peaceable possession through all time and through all transfers shall be sustained by the whole power of the State. . . . In the present discussion, it has appeared that Mr. George and myself agree:— 1. That there is no absolute ownership of land under the English common law. We agree that what individuals now possess is “an estate in land,” which is subject to many con ditions. These conditions may be varied. . . . 2. We agree that the individual possession of land is necessary to productive use, in order that humanity may be sustained; in other words, that the land must be impropriated. ^ And so, with Henry George, we insist that the real controversy in hand is not over the question whether private property in land is right or wrong, but whether in law and in morals private ownership of land should or should not include the private appropriation of ground rent, the annual value of the land and —if it should —what ought to be the limit of such appropriation. The contention of the single tax advocate is that this limit is to be found in the dictates of justice rather than in the letter of any ephemeral statute. On this Point, above the utterances of agitators and economists.

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