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

JUSTICE OF THE SINGLE TAX 119 the absence of artificial discord. We speak paradoxi cally of the socialisation of ground rent as though it were something to be artificially done. How can we socialise that which by its very nature socialises itself, and can never be naturally anything but socialised? A Puzzling Question and a Simple Answer What are the obstacles that to-day so impede a thorough consideration of the basic economic principle of the single tax by pulpit, press, and legislator? The answer to this apparently puzzling question is after all a simple one: First is the notion that the single tax contemplates public ownership of land, which is not true; second, the impression that it would disturb present land titles, which is not true; third, the charge that it would take for the community what belongs to the individual, which is not true; fourth, the poisoning misappre hension that, right or wrong, it would amount to-day to taxing into the public treasury practically the whole rental value of one species of property. All men are agreed as to the ethics of the single tax, that the earth was made for all men and not for a few. This is what Mr. George calls an instinct, an intuition of the human mind, a primary perception of the human reason. If we were to-day starting anew, the single tax would be manifestly wise as a method of taxation; if it could to-day be put in operation without injustice to any one, it would still be a manifestly wise plan of taxation. Can it be done? The single taxer is firmly of the opinion that it is no part of God’s economy that justice to one man can work injustice to another; that for every alleged

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