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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the scale towards inheritance and income taxes *49 I 1 ;-n accumulate five hundred dollars to his one, but cause, through the operation of this special privilege, f is at his, the poor man’s, expense that the rich man’s ^-.cumulation is made. Ex-Governor Long says that ere will be discontent just so long as certain comforts ; d possessions are within the reach of one class and *; yond the reach of another class. This discontent chbishop O’Connell calls the “tumultof theenvious.” r; it unprivileged men, whether unprivileged rich or : -.privileged poor/ have not far to look to find that ^: .content and envy start only where skill and enterprise ; ive off and special privilege begins. You are not vious of Edison or Marconi or Bessemer or railroad C ignates, or captains of industry; you gladly accord em princely rewards as public benefactors. It is si-.ly when the people are called upon to provide an Hson fortune for every city and town in the country j; rough privileged exaction that your discontent is aused. It is only when they are required to super- :■ pose upon an unprivileged steel fortune of three or f: Jr millions a privileged fortune of a thousand millions, :-.sed upon economic rent, that the shoe begins to tch. It is only when the ore baron, the coal baron, i! e oil baron, the railroad baron, and the land baron J: 2 privileged to take ten dollars or a hundred dollars L >m their wages and add it to the monopoly price of :■ al and iron and oil that men are swayed by the f-umult of the envious.” j: Legislation has been busy constituting criminal _ ences. The air is charged with criminal prosecution ' d conviction where fortunes have been swelled rough violation of law. But is it not true that neither 'islatures nor courts have seriously addressed 3:

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