Word: burden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...amount of property escaped the tax. Thus Mill's statement that the income tax is unjust since it falls heaviest on the honest members of the state is proved by the experience of both the United States and England. Therefore, it cannot be supposed that it will distribute the burden of taxation any more equitably in France...
...Pasteur Medal, offered annually for the best ten-minute speech on contemporary French politics, was awarded last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room. The question discussed was as follows: "Resolved, That the French government should pass an income tax in order to distribute the burden of taxation more equitably...
...next speaker was A. D. Brigham '12 who chose the negative side. Theoretically the burden of taxation is distributed as equally by the present system of taxation as it would be by the Income Tax of 1903, but in practice the former is far the more equitable. If the tax-payer wishes to avoid taxation, he could easily do so by the income tax. This tax fines a man's income directly whereas the present tax (the "mobilier") taxes a man on the rental value of his dwellings; and it is easy for a collector to ascertain the number...
...subject of the contest is: "Resolved, That the French Government should pass and income tax in order to distribute the burden of taxation more equitably." The judges will be Professor C. H. C. Wright '91, chosen by the French Department and by the Cercle Francais; Professor I. L. Winter '86, chosen by the Department of Public Speaking; and R. W. Kelso '04, instructor in English, chosen by the Debating Council. E. S. Sheldon '72, Professor of Romance Philology, will preside, Incidental music will be given by Miss Florence Pettigrew of Boston...
...PASTEUR MEDAL DEBATE. Fogg Lecture Room, 8 P. M. Subject: "Resolved, That the French Government should pass an income tax in order to distribute the burden of taxation more equitably...