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

118 THE A B C OF TAXATION be taxed to send the rich man’s children to the public school? But what difference does it make whether the rich man sends a dozen children or none to the public schools? Public schools add their cost to the land value of the city or town. They add just as much value to the land of the man that sends no children as to that of him who sends a dozen. Is not this fact sufficient to reconcile the childless man to the justice of his school tax? The cultivation of a family would not increase his tax any more than the cultivation and improve ment of his farm would add to the farmer’s tax, and thus by the single tax both farmers and families would be encouraged. Socialism The single taxer appeals also to the socialist to see and realise the self-evident truth that, without the socialisation of ground rent, were every other possible dream of socialism, political socialism or Christian socialism, brought to a perfect realisation, its full benefit to the last farthing would be reflected in the enhanced value of the land and so go straight and unearned into the pockets of the land owner. There is in natural taxation nothing of technical socialism,* which means the artificial assumption by society of a function that is primarily individual. It is rather a resocialisation of that which by it s own nature, in its inception and its growth, can be nothing but socialised, but which has been artificially desocialised. Socialism would replace artificial discord with artificial concord. Single tax is natural harmony i n * See Appendix A.

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