Local Taxation: a Criticism of Fallacies: And a Summary of Facts

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P.S. King, 1876 - 162 ページ
 

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31 ページ - ... /Suppose that there is a kind of income which constantly tends to increase, without any exertion or sacrifice on the part of the owners: those owners constituting a class in the community, whom the natural course of things progressively enriches, consistently with complete passiveness on their own part.
31 ページ - ... part. In such a case, it would be no violation of the principles on which private property is grounded, if the state should appropriate this increase of wealth, or part of it, as it arises. This would not properly be taking anything from anybody; it would merely be applying an accession of wealth, created by circumstances, to the benefit of society, instead of allowing it to become an unearned appendage to the riches of a particular class.
65 ページ - ... against ripping up the subject of taxation. If they want another League, at the death of this one — if they want another organisation, and a motive — for you cannot have these organisations without a motive and principle — then let them force the middle and industrious classes of England to understand how they have been cheated, robbed, and bamboozled upon the subject of taxation...
66 ページ - ... in the pound of the yearly rateable value of their rental, as it was worth to let for, and then stopped the progress of the rent by a law making the valuation final; that the land has gone on increasing ten-fold in many parts of Scotland, and five-fold in many parts of England, while the land tax has remained the same as it was 150 years ago; * * * if they force these things to be understood, they will be making as rueful a bargain as they have already made by resisting the abolition of the Corn...
65 ページ - I verily believe, if you were to bring forward the history of taxation in this country for the last 15o years, you will find as black a record against the landowners as even in the Corn Law itself.
28 ページ - This freedom of interior commerce, the effect of the uniformity of the system of taxation, is perhaps one of the principal causes of the prosperity of Great Britain...
66 ページ - ... houses from taxes, their tenants' horses from taxes, their dogs from taxes, their draining-tiles from taxes — if they force these things to be understood, they will be making as rueful a bargain as they have already made by resisting the abolition of the Corn-Law.
65 ページ - Corn-law itself. I warn them against ripping up the subject of taxation. If they want another League, at the death of this one — if they want another organisation, and a motive — for you cannot have these organisations without a motive and principle — then let them force the middle and industrious classes of England to understand how they have been cheated, robbed, and bamboozled...
46 ページ - Goschen has employed in another connection : " a chaos as regards authorities, a chaos as regards rates and a worse chaos than all as regards areas.
140 ページ - DIRECT and INDIRECT TAXATION, and of OTHER SOURCES of RECEIPTS, for the purposes of LOCAL EXPENDITURE, in each DIVISION of the UNITED KINGDOM, in the Year 1873-74.

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