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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APPENDIX D 177 right of all men to life and to the pursuit of happiness, a right based upon the brotherhood of man which is derived from the fatherhood of God. This is the injustice that we would abolish in order to abolish involuntary poverty. That the appropriation of the rental value of land to- public uses in the form of a tax would abolish the injustice which has just been described, and thus abolish involuntary poverty, is clear; since in such case no one would hold lands except for use, and the masses of men, having free access to unoccupied lands, would be able to Acert their labour directly upon natural bounties and to enjoy the full fruits and products of their labours, beginning to pay a portion of the fruits of their industry to the public treasury only when, with the growth of the com munity and the extension to them of the benefits of civilisation, there would come to their lands a rental value distinct from the value of the products of their industry, which value they would willingly pay as the exact equivalent of the new advan tages coming to them from the community; and again in such case men would not be compelled to work for employers for wages less than absolutely just wages, namely, the equivalent of the new value created by their labour; since men surely would not consent to work for unjust wages, when they could obtain perfectly just wages by working for themselves; and, finally, since, when what belongs to the community shall have been given to the community, the only valuable things that men shall own as private property will be those things that have been produced by private industry, the boundless desires and capacities of civilised human nature for good things will always create a demand for these good things, namely, the products of labour — a demand always greater than the supply; and therefore for the labour that produces these good things there'will always be a demand greater than the supply and the labourer will be able to command perfectly just wages— which are a perfect equivalent in the product of some other person’s labour for the new value which his own labour produces.

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