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The following article was written especially for the Crimson by G. H. Duncan, a member of the New Hampshire legislature, lecturer, and proponent of the "single tax", who is to speak at the Liberal Club at 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening.
One of the problems which is always confronting us is taxation. With the recent increases in public expenditures that problem is becoming more and more pressing. As an indication of how much attention is being paid to it in legislative circles it may be stated that during the years 1927...
Yet community expenses and public enterprises must be paid for by some one. It is generally recognized that all routine and special public undertakings are intended to be of benefit to some part of the public; therefore each member of the public should contribute, on some basis, toward payment. But...
Any public enterprise which is economically warranted must reflect in some direction the benefit which accrues thereby. And if we could only find that element in the public economy which reflects the benefit, and use that, and that only, as the basis of taxation, it seems that a large part...
The prime factors in the production of wealth are natural resources--land the most common--and human labor. To these the common-sense of man has added a third factor, which is essential to our present scale of production, capital--that portion of wealth which is laid aside to assist...