The ABC of taxation

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Identifikator:: 1824546017

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-214923

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Author:: Dopsch, Alfons http://d-nb.info/gnd/118680390

Title:: Naturalwirtschaft und Geldwirtschaft in der Weltgeschichte

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Seidel

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XII, 294 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Vierter Abschnitt. Altgriechenland und das Römerreich

Collection:: Economics Books

JUSTICE OF THE SINGLE TAX 113 it is a tax neither according to benefits nor according to ability, because it is a tax only in form, not a tax in substance. The public merely takes out of the land with its left hand the value which, with its right hand, it has put into the land. We ask your thoughtful criticism of the single tax tenet regarding wages. We believe in high wages and low prices, which are the equal opportunity channels for the equitable distribution of wealth, instead of low wages and high prices, which are the special privilege channels for the inequitable congestion of wealth. Contrary to popular illusion, wages are not regulated by dollar wheat, but the price of wheat is fixed by the competition of dealers, and wages are fixed by the com petition of labourers. The benefits of high prices go to the few, while the benefits of low prices go to the many. Increase in ground rent does not tend to an increase in prices, because usually sales increase faster propor tionally than rent, thus reducing the ratio of rent to sales. The larger the product, the lower the individual costs. The larger the gross sales, the lower the com petitive prices. If a man has the best corner lot in a city he has a monopoly, because by the private appropriation of ground rent (a special privilege conceded to him by the State, and having all the sanction of law and custom) he cannot help diverting, without fault of his own, into his own private pocket, the public expenditure in its transmuted form of ground rent. So we say that the special privilege greater than all others put together is the private appropriation of ground rent. We are entirely agreed to the private ownership of land. I

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