Word: land
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Editions of "The Odes and Epodes of Horace," by Professor Smith, and "Sea and Land," by Professor Shaler, have recently been published...
...Suffolk has introduced a bill in the senate to authorize the extension of the Arnold Arboretum. The bill provides that in case the Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Boston deem it desirable to take at any time the whole or any portion of that tract of land in West Roxbury, held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for the purpose of extending the Arboretum, they...
Question: "Resolved, That a single tax on land would be better than the present system of taxation...
...substitution of the single tax on land would be a decided improvement: Henry George, Progress and Poverty. - (a) Simple. - (b) Economical. - (c) Can not be evaded. - (d) Automatic. - (e) Less burdensome. - (f) Frees industry and commerce. - (g) Removes taxes upon labor and capital: George, in Century, XL, 3. - (h) Equitable...
...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...