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 121 eye,” what irritation from mote or beam or cinder can compare with the social irritation caused by injustice? Single Tax and the Massachusetts Constitution Query: Is not the present system of taxation clearly in violation of those state constitutions which, like that of Massachusetts, provide that assessments shall be “proportionate and reasonable” since, under that system a whole class of property holders is practically exempt from taxation? Query: Is not a system of taxation which so favours one class of citizens above another in direct violation of the constitution of Massachusetts, which provides. Part I., Article VI., that “no man, or corporation, or association of men, have any other title to obtain advantages, or particular and exclusive privileges, distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the public? Query; Is not the taxation of ground rents in lieu of all other taxation manifestly in harmony with the constitution of Massachusetts, which reads as follows, Part I., Art. VIE: “Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honour, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men. Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.”

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