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 I. The three legs of the Tripos

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GROUND RENT A SOCIAL PRODUCT n treasury tends to a fairer distribution of produce in Wages earned. Whatever of taxation is transferred from other wealth to ground rent leaves so much more Wealth to be distributed in wages. Again, it is submitted that the true office of ground rent is to offer a communal shoulder suited to bear all the burden of common needs, leaving produce — current wealth — to be distributed, as fast as pro duced, in wages and interest, the total volume of which will always be increased by the amount of rent appropriated through the taxation of whatever of economic rent there is in special privilege. Ground rent being a social product, is not its private appropriation a special privilege? V.—The Cause of Ground Rent The dimensions, as well as the continuous character of the contribution made by the people to the growth and volume of ground rent, are seldom measured — by many persons hardly suspected. Almost anything Use that he owns, except land, a man may appropriate, destroy, tear down, burn down, remove, consume, change in form, wear out. To the land itself he cannot do any of these things. The value of its use is ground rent, an annual value, which is all that the owner of land can consume each year. The land value itself survives, and usually intact. People speak of owning land, because they or their fathers have bought and paid for it. A simple illustration will indicate how a dispro portionate reliance may be placed upon this argument, considered in the light of all the causes contrib uting to the value of land. Suppose, for instance,

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