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

Collection:: Economics Books

SECOND BOSTON OBJECT LESSON 77 accordance with a natural economic law, instead of a variable and impossible statute law. This is all there is in the single tax of complexity, absurdity, or impracticability. The City of Boston is lavish of its millions in order that Washington Street space may yield proportion ately more business, rhore profit, more convenience, and more satisfaction to people. Enterprising syn dicates of men and capital are ready and watching to make the most of the situation. It is the unequal advantage enjoyed by the owners of lots small or large that hinders this realisation of the city’s good intentions. This is the canker that destroys the city’s harvest from its planted millions. The people tax themselves 1100,000 to build a beautiful Milton, Dorchester, Newton, Cambridge, or Lynn boulevard. Then straightway the same people again pay interest on the same outlay in the form of ground rent, before they can establish their homes and enter into the enjoyment of their own benefactions. In other words, they deposit ? 100,000 in the ground, and then pay 5 per cent annually for the privilege of appropriating the interest thereon. Why should a city which creates the enormous v a!ue of its land, be powerless to insure, or even to facilitate, the use of it by the provision of suitable buildings thereon because paralysed and checkmated by unequal rights vested in the dead hand of cor porations, trustees, and institutions. German cities exercise themselves about the muni- cipal “housing of the poor.” Why should not American cities cast about to remove the municipal

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