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

Collection:: Economics Books

APPENDIX B 169 ance upon the land question. In it Is declared his belief that the greatest of all iniquities is the private ownership of land, together with his explicit endorsement of the single tax doctrine of Henry George. The utterances of this world-famous man, heralded far and near, are likely to foster the misapprehension that the aim of both Henry George and himself is the destruction of private property in land. I, therefore, beg, with only a word or two of comment, to call critical attention U> one of Tolstoy’s statements, leaving it to the reader to make his own interpretation of its meaning. Notwithstanding Tolstoy’s unequivocal declaration that “the soil must be restored to the people,” and his reiteration of “the wrong of private property in land,” the conclusion that he would destroy the private ownership of land must be, it seems to me, a mistaken one, and out of harmony with both his text and context. Henry George specifically arraigned the institu tion of private property in land, as it now exists. He con demned that feature of land tenure which necessitates the inva sion by taxation of the otherwise sacred right of private property in the products of labour in order that ground rent may con tinue to inure mainly to private benefit. Hence, it must be submitted that what Tolstoy had in mind was private property in land “ as now existing.” The length and breadth of George’s proposed remedy, to which Tolstoy gives full endorsement, was, in Mr. George’s own words, “I do not propose ... to con fiscate private property in land. . . but to appropriate rent by taxation.” (“Progress and Poverty,” Book VIII, Chapter 2). In the enjoyment of every other “right and privilege” of tenure, the right to “own, possess, buy, sell, devise and bequeath” excepting only the one privilege of the private appropriation of rent, Mr. George’s specific declaration was that the land owner should be left undisturbed. The following paragraph is from Tolstoy’s “A Great Iniquity”: “A member of the English Parliament, Labouchere, could publicly say, without meeting any refutation, that ‘he was not

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