Reparations-Sabotage durch die Weltwirtschaft

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Identifikator:: 1777318467

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-161768

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Eckert, Max http://d-nb.info/gnd/115861319

Title:: Meer und Weltwirtschaft

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Zentral-Verl.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 79 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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'S3 6 THE ABC OF TAXATION In these public service corpou-tions the public is a recognised partner, holding, through the franchise, perhaps a minor interest, possibly a major interest. The private interest in these partnerships is adminis tered by men skilful, alert, of life-long experience, masters of their art. Of the public’s interest, which has too long or too often been that of a silent partner, the Legislature is the constitutional representative. But legislative bodies, by reason of the method of their selection, their short terms, and by their limited and varied experience, are disqualified to cope directly with the specialised ability and experience of the private administration. Consequently the question has already arisen and is being answered, viz. why should not the interest of the people, the State, in the co-partnership, be represented by the ablest men whom the President, or the Governor, can secure at adequate salaries, constituting permanent com missions — men who shall learn to know what is needed without asking corporation lawyers, who shall become as competent in their distinct sphere of regulation, including the field of taxation, as are the Hills, Harri- mans, Mellens, and Tuttles in what should be their own sole province of railway administration — commissions whose duty shall be to ascertain the facts, to frame the argument for the people’s side — to defend the rights of the public against aggression, now inseparable from the situation, and to render a decision which shall stand as the verdict of the people’s representatives. Not until some such harmonising agency is employed can it be possible for these great corporations and the people to get their respective rights without wrong to the one or the other.

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