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...III. Such a Board would give the most efficient and satisfactory solution. - (a) Composed of men experienced in railroad matters and personally disinterested. - (b) Efficiency and promptness secured by compulsory power. - (c) Respect of all parties concerned...
...III. The commission would be opposed to business principles. - (a) Inquisitorial and meddling. - (1) Gives a share of the management of a business to other than the owners. - (b) Oppressive. - (1) Railroads already interfered with enough by commissions. - (2) Interferes with right of private contract...
...III. Land values are the best subject for taxation: Ricardo, Chaps. 24, 32; Henry George, Progress and Poverty. - (a) Society may justly appropriate land rents. - (1) Rents are due to the development of society, not to the owner's activity. - (b) Taxation of land rents will prevent unjust enrichments from land investments. - (c) It will prevent speculation in land. - (d) It will lead to the more effective use of land...
...PEABODY and R. C. RINGWALT.Best general references: Single Tax Debate in Amer. Journ. of Soc. Sci., No. XXVII (Oct. 1890); Edward Atkinson in Century, XL, 385 (July, 1890); Pol. Sci. Quar. III, 1 (March 1888); VI, 625 (Dec. 1891); Forum III, 15-28, 433-442, Extension Dept., Public Opinion, Oct. 25, 1894; Horace White in Pop. Sci. Mo. XXXVI...
...III. The tax does not accomplish the end desired. - (a) Does away with only one branch of capitalism. - (1) Trusts and monopolies will not be affected. - (b) Would not relieve the burdens of the poor. - (1) Country poor will be weighted down by increased tax. - (2) City poor will merely be assessed by the state instead of the individual: Pop. Sci. Mo. XXXVI, 489. - (c) Tax has no basis in history or in practice. - (1) When it has been tried it has failed: Century XL, 385; Seligman in Jour. Soc. Sci. No. XXVII...