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 II. Three Boston object lessons in taxation

Collection:: Economics Books

Chapter V SECOND BOSTON OBJECT LESSON WASHINGTON STREET AND THE SINGLE TAX* I N VIEW of the nature of ground rent as already considered there is one way that promises to simplify and equalise taxation, viz., by beginning at once the gradual transfer of the burden to shoulders by which eventually it will not be felt, thus tending to correct the distribution of wealth, abolish strikes, silence the clamour against monopoly and special privilege, and sweep from before the halting wheels of social and moral progress much of the degradation, distress, and vice precipitated to-day upon society by want on the one hand and surfeit on the other. Men who have large selfish interests often prove themselves just as open to conviction of fairness and soundness as those who have small selfish interests. So far as the case is made plain to them their judgment generally will be impartial. No business interest, for instance, is more keenly sensitive to crooked taxation than is the real estate business; none quicker to take alarm at the sound of hostile legislation. No one would claim, and few would allow, that to justify a reform it should be shown to be to the pecuniary * This chapter is adapted from an address at a banquet given by the Massa chusetts Single Tax League to Representative Real Estate Men in the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, October 8, 1900. 66

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