The A B C of Taxation: With Boston Object Lessons, Private Property in Land, and Other Essays and AddressesDoubleday, Page, 1909 - 229 стор. |
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Сторінка 142 - ... to be made, laid or placed in, upon, above or under any public or private road, street or ground ; all mains, pipes and tanks laid or placed in, upon, above or under any public or private street or place for conducting steam, heat, water, oil, electricity or any property, substance or product capable of transportation or conveyance therein or that is protected thereby...
Сторінка 29 - The ordinary progress of a society which increases in wealth is at all times tending to augment the incomes of landlords ; to give them both a greater amount and a greater proportion of the wealth of the community, independently of any trouble or outlay incurred by themselves. They grow richer as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.
Сторінка 121 - No man, nor corporation, or association of men, have any other title to obtain advantages, or particular and exclusive privileges, distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the public...
Сторінка 173 - ... the limits of private possession have been left to be fixed by man's own industry and the laws of individual peoples.
Сторінка 142 - ... rights, authority or permission to construct, maintain, or operate in, under, above, upon or through any streets, highways, or public places, any mains, pipes, tanks, conduits or wires...
Сторінка 141 - land," " real estate," and " real property," as used in this chapter, include the land itself above and under water, all buildings and other articles and structures, substructures and superstructures, erected upon, under or above, or affixed to the same ; all...
Сторінка 121 - Government is instituted for the common good, for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people and not for the profit, honor or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men...
Сторінка 33 - LAND-TAX, levied in proportion to the rent of land, and varying with every variation of rent, is in effect a tax on rent; and as such a tax will not apply to that land which yields no rent, nor to the produce of that capital which is employed on the land with a view to profit merely, and which never pays rent, it will not in any way affect the price of raw produce, but will fall wholly on the landlords.
Сторінка 28 - The ordinary rent of land is, in many cases, owing partly at least to the attention and good management of the landlord. A very heavy tax might discourage too much this attention and good management. Ground rents, so far as they exceed the ordinary rent of land, are altogether owing to the good government of the sovereign...
Сторінка 33 - It is perfectly agreeable to the other three. It is perfectly certain. The time of payment for the tax, being the same as that for the rent, is as convenient as it can be to the contributor. Though the landlord is in all cases the real contributor, the tax is commonly advanced by the tenant, to whom the landlord is obliged to allow it in the payment of the rent.