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 75 Why should the Boylston Building and the old Masonic Temple and the old Public Library have come down in their youth and beauty while these Washing ton Street buildings are allowed to remain standing in their decrepitude? There must, we say, be some sufficient reason. If the reason here suggested is not the real one, we ask the? reader what it is. Question. How, then, are we to know just when old buildings should give place to new ones? Answer. When the single tax shoe begins to pinch, that is, when, under the single tax, the old buildings cease to be profitable: in other words, when, upon land with buildings unsuited to the situation, a tax seems heavy which, upon the same land with proper buildings, would seem light. The Honourable Henry Winn, a well-known advocate of the multiple tax, says: “Why does a man owe a tax? First, because society protects his person; second, it supplies and keeps in order streets for his Passage; third, it lights his way by night; fourth, it furnishes parks and libraries; fifth, it schools him a ud his children; sixth, it protects his property; seventh, it keeps courts open to redress his grievances; eighth, it provides a government to make and enforce iaws; ninth, it supports him if he falls into poverty; and tenth, chiefly because he has been placed here by God to serve and improve, not himself alone, but urankind in general, and as that can only be done by uaaintaining government, order, and civilisation, he owes his tax as he owes his life, to support that government.” “Amen,” says the single taxer; and these are exactly the things for which every man is paying when

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