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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^„ 150 THE A B C OF TAXATION themselves to stopping the continuous drain of wealth from the pockets of the producers into the coffers of the privileged? President Roosevelt in his last message enjoins upon Congress: “ Let us not do what the next generation cannot undo. We have a right to the proper use of both the forests and the fuel during our lifetime, but we should not dispose of the birth right of our children.” Mr. Bryan, in his prediction of “A Great Moral Awakening,” quotes the declaration of the United States Supreme Court that “an unjust tax is larceny in form of law.” Unjust fortunes are, we claim, the fruit of unjust taxes, taxes that subtract from wages and make almost impossible the savings of labour while augmenting the fortunes of privilege; or, to be more exact, unjust fortunes are due to the absence of just taxes. But it is asked, what are you going to do about it? We say that there is just one punishment to fit the crime, to wit, the taxation of privilege. Tax the oil and the coal, the franchise, and all other forms of economic rent, at its fixed initial source, the land, which, without inquisitorial or dooming process, bears always the imprint of its own market valuation. Tax, not private ownership or corporate franchise, but the privilege attached thereto. The colossal error of the century is the private appropriation, instead of the taxation, of rent. This it is that makes the shopping district of every city a continuous battlefield for the business interests of her people, and every battle a Waterloo. For the prevention of unjust fortunes a natural process is already provided. For an equitable reduc tion of accumulated fortunes artificial machinery

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