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 IV. Appendix

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A ETHICS OF THE SINGLE TAX, ITS BREADTH AND CATHOLICITY* The appeal to reason contained in the doctrine of Henry George, whether as a moral philosophy, or as a system of tax ation, is as universal as is the natural tax (ground rent), which has been in automatic and irresistible operation for centuries, in every civilised country under the sun. A response to this universal appeal only awaits the precipitation of a mass of relative ignorance and error now held in solution in the public mind regarding the author and his doctrine. This single tax of Henry George is broad and catholic like the air, the sunshine, and all other bounties that heaven sends alike upon the just and the unjust. It knows no dis tinction of race, denomination, party, sect, or creed. It knows no socialism, individualism, communism, anarchism, Greek, barbarian, bond, or free. The land question is under all these. Where it leaves off, these begin. A single taxer may be any of these. All of these should be single taxers. There is in the single tax, or natural taxation, nothing of technical socialism, which means the assumption by society of functions that are primarily individual. It is rather a re-socialisation of that which by its own nature, in Its incep tion and in its growth, can be nothing but socialised, but which has been artificially de-socialised. There is in natural tax ation no communism, if by communism is meant the com pulsory pooling of the products of human labour. Such taxation is, however, the divine communism of the common enjoyment of a natural bounty bestowed upon all in common. There is in natural taxation no taint of the anarchism of dis order. It is the recognition of the ideal anarchism of law, so perfect, self-adjusting, self-operating, that no external force is needed to carry it into execution. ♦Published in the Arena of January, 1899. 167

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