Word: increment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unjust one. - (a) Not universal. - (1) Whole burden placed on a small portion of the community. - (b) Not equal. - (1) Professional men would pay practically nothing. - (2) Farmers would over pay: Pop. Sci. Quar., VI, 625. - (c) Not thorough: Jour. of Soc. Sci., 37. - (1) Unearned increment on hand is taxed. - (2) Other forms of increment escape: Century...
...Wealth that has grown up under the sanction of the law, it is simply robbery to confiscate. (a) The unearned increment in land is not more hurtful to the community than other forms of unearned increment. (b) If the state would claim the benefit of unearned increase, it must in equity make good also undeserved losses.- Popular Science Monthly. vol. 30, pp. 511-2; Lippincott, January, 1887; Walker, Pol. Econ...