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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y6 THE A B C OF TAXATION he pays his ground rent, the natural tax. Why ask him to pay for the same things a second time? The people of Boston, as hereinbefore alleged, actually pay in single taxation a natural tax of $55,000,000, coupled with an unnatural and “double” tax of $13,000,000, a grand total of $68,000,000. They receive in return benefits amounting only to $23,000,000. The failure to pay all public expenses out of this natural tax of $55,000,000 is the cause of gross inequality in the division of wealth, an inequality greatly exaggerated by the additional $13,000,000 unnatural double tax. The single tax stands for the recognition of a scientific principle of taxation. When or how it is to be introduced is not for us to say. All that is here asked is that you shall study the problem, adopt the single tax principles, and then begin to apply them. The complaint is against a condition and never against an individual or a class. The man who, when paying his water rate, or his city gas bill, or city electric light bill, pays in full for a public service rendered to him, is not paying a tax. How, then, could a land owner, who, in paying his single tax, would pay to-day not in full, but only fifty cents on a dollar for the communal service rendered him, say that he was paying a tax, or that he was the victim of confiscation? The proposal of the single tax is gradually to abolish the present complex, unequal, and systemless method of taxation, and to defray all public expenses from a tax upon land values alone. This surely would be a simple process. It would be to distribute the public burden with invariable justice, because in

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