The ABC of taxation

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Identifikator:: 1010741608

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-21094

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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

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SECOND BOSTON OBJECT LESSON 69 Meantime, where is the builder’s occupation gone? Is this health for a body politic? If not, will some wise physician furnish a prescription? Do the I231,600 worth of nearly worthless buildings shown in Fig. IX represent those business interests of Boston for which a Washington Street subway is being completed; fof which aTremont Street parallel subway was completed only a few years since, and but one square away? These subways add nothing to the value either of these old buildings or of the new ones which might replace them. Yet they soon will have doubled the value of the land. It is submitted in all honesty and seriousness that this Washington Street, from Adams Square to Eliot Street, is a veritable economic monstrosity. When ever any section of a city is in a state of transition, like the West Street and Tdmple Place of a generation ago, or like the Summer Street of to-day, altered fronts and other makeshift devices are for a time natural and inevitable. But here in Washington Street, for a couple of centuries the main business artery of a great city, there are not on its whole length more than three °r four buildings which you could point out with special pride to the visitor from Chicago, or Kansas Qty, or Marblehead, or Cape Cod. For this condition there must be a cause, and this cause is the private appropriation of a public value; a value publicly created, and publicly maintained. If this is not the cause, we ask you to help us find what is. Query. Is it the Old Corner Bookstore (Fig. VIII), n °w almost two hundred years old, valued at $2.62 Per square foot, that needs a new Washington Street subway? Is Washington Street land at $50 to $300

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