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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GROUND RENT A SOCIAL PRODUCT 27 The fifty-five millions are, we submit, the “income" in very truth earned by the city and people of Boston — created by their actual labour and actual expendi ture. Under the single tax Boston would pay all its current expenses out of this legitimate $55,000,000 income of its own, earned by itself, instead of allow ing four-fifths, or $45,000,000, of this amount to be divided, through the channel of special privilege, into unearned incomes, thus aggravating those inequalities in distribution of wealth which people are wont to declaim against as partial and wrong. While that part of the ground rent of Boston that goes to individuals may be said to be unearned by them, rent as a whole can hardly be said to be un earned; having been produced by society, it may truthfully be said to be earned by society, and hence R may go to it as its wages, just as properly as his earnings go to the individual who works for wages, if a railroad has the special privilege of a monopoly m the transportation of coal from the Pennsylvania eoal mines, or in the transportation of people, why n °t tax the railroad in proportion to the value of its franchise? The private monopoly of a natural resource is a special privilege. If the private owner ship of the two or three billion tons of unmined anthra- c ite coal is a special privilege, why not tax it what others would give for the privilege of mining and marketing it, thus making all the people sharers in What is called a natural bounty? If the private appro priation of a billion dollars’ worth of iron ore is a special privilege, would it not be “proportionate and reasonable” for its owners to pay in taxation one- hulf at least of the value of that privilege? It is becoming common to scold about trusts and monopo

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