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

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86 THE A B C OF TAXATION who want every good thing that is made (and are able to have it) the better it is for trade. Thus, an equitable distribution of wealth is a vital requisite in the case. Make taxation equal, impartial, “reasonable” to the poor man, “proportionate” to the rich man, and the distribution of wealth will then be as equal as justice can make it, for it will be in proportion to the skill and industry of the hands and brains producing that wealth. “ Equal opportunities for all, and special privileges to none.” The equitable ideal is to-day unrealised because, while a comparatively equitable distribution of a portion of wealth is going on through the one universal channel of wages, congestion of wealth is constantly occurring through the second and only remaining channel, the channel of special privilege, which is invariably a privilege of the private appropriation of ground rent, always and wholly a social product. The single tax aim is, on the one hand, to widen the channel of wages by opening the way to equal opportu nities, and by increasing the purchasing power of wages through reduction of prices, and on the other hand, to narrow the channel of special privilege by making the man who has this privilege pay a tax proportioned to his privileges. Another Illustration The St. Paul’s Church property on Tremont Street, Boston, standing between two large stores (Fig. XVI), furnishes another good illustration of what we have been saying and reiterating. Less than ten years ago $1,500,000 was offered for

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