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

THE ABCOF TAXATION 1*4 With the right to possess, “to buy and sell, bequeath and devise it,” provided only that equal rights shall be asserted and secured by taking in the form of taxation enough of the ground rent to meet all public expenses. Because taxes are spent upon the land, we would take them from the land. The tendency to-day of this regulation by taxation, of trusts, monopolies, franchises and special privileges in all its forms would, we claim, be strongly toward a rectification of the admittedly unjust distribution, not of present wealth, but of wealth hereafter to be produced. When all special privileges, including the special privilege of private appropriation of ground rent, are abolished by exacting payment for the same at their market value, then taxation, which now so grievously aggravates an unjust distribution, will be unnecessary, and you will have one channel only, and that the one proper channel, for the distribution of wealth, viz., wages proportioned to skill and industry. In all primitive societies the soil has been held as common property with equal rights of the many to natural opportunities. To-day the land tenure pendu lum has swung clear to the other side, and in highly civilised society land has come to be held by the few in private ownership with its special privilege of the private appropriation of ground rent. The single tax aim is to bring the pendulum back into a position of reconciled equilibrium, modern individual ownership by the few brought into harmony with primitive com mon ownership by the many. One reason why so many men are averse to conceding to the individual the right of ownership in land is that the right has

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