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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120 THE A B C OF TAXATION injustice to one man there would be a far greater justice wrought to hundreds and to thousands; that the vacant lot which is his only all, is not the poor man’s universe; that his individual loss or benefit will be measured, not by his relation to that vacant, unpro ductive lot, but by his relation to the social fabric into which he is woven and to the universe of which he is a part; and that for every alleged confiscation there would be a score of compensations. If the moral theory of the “compensationists” were sound, it would apply — and many of its advo cates claim that it does apply — as well to slavery as to landlordism, so that slaves could not be justly set free unless the masters were compensated. The most outrageous act, then, of what the “compensationists” call confiscation, was committed by God himself, when he led the Israelites out of Egypt. Instead of com pensating the Egyptians, who thereby lost valuable “private property” which had had the sanction of four hundred years’ acquiescence, He engulfed in the Red Sea those whose sensitiveness to the injustice of “confiscation” stirred them to follow and reclaim their confiscated property. If the cinder is not removed from your eye at once, and inflammation follows, what then do you do? Do you bathe the head, apply a plaster to the back, hot water bottles to the feet, and some specific to the stomach? Or do you forthwith remove the speck from the eye whatever the pain it costs you? The smaller the offending cinder, the more intense oftentimes the inflammation, and the more difficult of removal. The longer the operation is delayed the more painful the conditions. While guarding well “the apple of the

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