Word: landing
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...discriminating tax would be, (a) practicable, (b) efficient, (c), beneficial to the masses.- 1. By annihilation of selling value and its speculative element. 2. The burden of taxation on productive industry would thus be considerably lightened. 3. By the gradual abolition of poverty-The Land and the Community, pp. 147-173; Lippincott, March 1887, p. 491; George's Progress and Poverty, pp. 389-408; The Nineteenth Century...
...overruled by controlling principle.- Thackery, pp. 186-197. 3. Difficulties of accomplishment overcome, (a) by gradual change, (b) by granting the necessary power to congress.- Clarke, pp. 39-41, 4. No further centralization of power is involved; (a) the government is already a large landholder.- Thackeray's The Land and the Community, pp. 138, 174-185, George's Progress and Poverty...
Best general references: Walker, Land and its Rent, p. 143; Popular Science Monthly, February, 1887; Lippincott, January, 1887; Forum, March, 1887; Rae, Contemporary Socialism...
...economic doctrines underlying the proposal rest upon false proposals. (a) Land no less than other things is a proper subject for private ownership. (b) Labor alone does not create wealth. (c) Labor creates the conditions that make land wealth just as much as it creates the conditions that make other things wealth.- Popular Science Monthly, February, 1887; Walker, Land and its Rent, p. 143; Forum, March...
...History shows that the progress of civilization any the division of labor have demanded the substitution of private tenure for common ownership in land...