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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INHERITANCE AND INCOME TAXES 149 can accumulate five hundred dollars to his one, but because, through the operation of this special privilege, it is at his, the poor man’s, expense that the rich man’s accumulation is made. Ex-Governor Long says that there will be discontent just so long as certain comforts and possessions are within the reach of one class and beyond the reach of another class. This discontent Archbishop O’Connell calls the “tumultof theenvious.” But unprivileged men, whether unprivileged rich or unprivileged poor, have not far to look to find that discontent and envy start only where skill and enterprise leave off and special privilege begins. You are not envious of Edison or Marconi or Bessemer or railroad magnates, or captains of industry; you gladly accord them princely rewards as public benefactors. It is only when the people are called upon to provide an Edison fortune for every city and town in the country through privileged exaction that your discontent is aroused. It is only when they are required to super impose upon an unprivileged steel fortune of three or four millions a privileged fortune of a thousand millions, based upon economic rent, that the shoe begins to pinch. It is only when the ore baron, the coal baron, the oil baron, the railroad baron, and the land baron are privileged to take ten dollars or a hundred dollars from their wages and add it to the monopoly price of coal and iron and oil that men are swayed by the “tumult of the envious.” Legislation has been busy constituting criminal offences. The air is charged with criminal prosecution and conviction where fortunes have been swelled through violation of law. But is it not true that neither legislatures nor courts have seriously addressed

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