Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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.
How unsatisfactory present methods are was shown at a recent meeting of Massachusetts assessors. It was reported in the press that when Commissioner Henry F. Long asked those assessors who had not violated the oath of office to stand, no one arose. In the financial comment in the Boston Herald...
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...
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...
Now it is clearly evident that the value of the factors labor and capital must be the cost of reproduction, the number and amount of each being relatively limitless and that, both being relatively mobile, location has little to do with value. But Natural Resources (land) being incapable of reproduction...