Die deutsche Kaliindustrie

Die Praxis der bürgerlichen Klassenjustiz im Kampfe gegen die revolutionären Bewegungen der Werktätigen, nationalen Minderheiten, Kolonial- und Halbkolonialvölker

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Identifikator:: 1821348664

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217403

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Die deutsche Kaliindustrie

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: E. S. Mittler & Sohn

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: XII, 175 Seiten; Tab

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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88 THE A B C OF TAXATION Boston rate of |i6 per thousand, from taxation upon the land of any one of the above named ten cities or one county of the state for the year 1907. Under the single tax such conditions could not prevail. Prevailing, as they do, nothing but the private appropriation of a public ground rent can perpetuate them. Nothing but the taxation of ground rent can correct them. The St. Paul’s illustration seems extreme on account of the total exemption of church property, but what has been said of it is from two-thirds to nine-tenths true of all vacant land, or of land slightly improved, as is the case with a large part of the business section of Boston. Granting all that St. Paul’s may claim for religion and sentiment, we yet maintain—and its forty-one proprietors will doubtless admit—that an impartial distribution of the cost of religion and sentiment to the one hundred and twenty thousand families of Boston at this rate of more than $2,000 each, amounting to a total of more than $240,000,000 a year, would be an undreamed of union of Church and State. The object of this illustration is not to cast any invidious reflection upon St. Paul’s Church, but rather to impress upon your minds the enormous dimensions of the reservoir from which the single tax proposes to draw all public revenue. The proprietors of St. Paul’s are a body of Christian gentlemen of discernment and philanthropy; none are more likely than they to see the inconsistency of their situation; none more likely to welcome its cor recting; none more likely to see that they will get a full share of betterment from a new and improved order of

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