The ABC of taxation

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Identifikator:: 1818395479

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Author:: Marx, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118578537; Engels, Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/118530380

Title:: Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe

Place of publication:: Frankfurt a.M.

Publisher:: Marx-Engels-Archiv

Year of publication:: 1927-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1818396394

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-205987

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Author:: Marx, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118578537; Engels, Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/118530380

Title:: Der Briefwechsel zwischen Marx und Engels 1861-1867 / herausgegeben von D. Rjazanov

Volume count:: Abt. 3, Briefwechsel, Bd. 3

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Marx-Engels-Verlag G. M. B. H.

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXIII, 488 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 1864

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176 THE A B C OF TAXATION This rental tax will make compulsory the adequate utilisa tion of natural bounties exactly in proportion to the growth of the community and of civilisation, and will thus compel the possessors to employ labour, the demand for which will enable the labourer to obtain perfectly just wages. The rental tax fund growing by a natural law proportionately with the growth of civilisation will thus be sufficient for public needs and capacities and therefore all taxes upon industry and upon the products of industry may and should be abolished. While the tax on land values promotes industry and therefore increases private wealth, taxes upon industry act like a fine or a punish ment inflicted upon industry—they impede and restrain and finally strangle it. In the desired condition of things land would be left in the private possession of individuals, with full liberty on their part to give, sell, or bequeath it, while the state would levy on it for public uses a tax that should equal the annual value of the land itself, irrespective of the use made of it or the improve ments on it. The only utility of private ownership and dominion of land, as distinguished from possession, is the evil utility of giving to the owners the power to reap where they have not sown, to take the products of the labour of others without giving them an equivalent— the power to impoverish and practically to reduce to a species of slavery the masses of men, who are compelled to pay to private owners the greater part of what they produce for permission to live and to labour in this world, when they would work upon the natural bounties for their own account, and the power, when men work for wages, to compel them to compete against one another for the opportunity to labour, and to compel them to consent to labour for the lowest possible wages—wages that are by no means the equivalent of the new value created by the work of the labourer, but are barely sufficient to maintain the labourer in a miserable exis tence, and even the power to deny to the labourer the oppor tunity to labour at all. This is an injustice against the equal

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