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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Student Volunteer Committee was held last evening. It was decided to commence at once to raise the eight hundred dollars necessary to pay the salary of Mr. Birtwell, who will have the work in charge. Each member of the committee has been assigned one or more dormitories and will visit men personally so far as possible. Subscriptions may also be sent to C. E. Noyes, 7 Ware street...
...body of men appointed by the mayor, the number to be limited to ten. This board should be changed every five or seven years. Members of this board to receive no remuneration, for in this way men can be obtained that could not be induced to serve for the pay that the city would be willing to offer them. It has generally been found true that the best service is to be obtained from unpaid overseers. This board should have power to appoint agents to attend to the detailed service of the system. They should appoint three officers, a superintendent...
...income tax is a just tax. - (a) It is an assessment on a man's ability to pay. - (b) It falls upon those who are best able to pay. - (1) Incomes more than necessary for actual living expenses. - (c) It equalizes the burden of taxation. - (1) The poor have to bear most of the taxes on consumption: Lalor's Cyclopaedia...
...Income Tax is indefensible as a means of tax reform. - (a) Poor are not now immoderately taxed: Nation, LIV, 24 (Jan. 11, 1984). - (1) Tariff reductions are are on necessaries of life. - (2) Poorer classes pay but little State and Municipal taxes. - (b) An Income Tax is objectionable in administration: Mill's Political Economy, II, 426. - (1) Difficult to ascertain real incomes. - (2) Inquisitorial in nature. - (3) A tax on honesty. - (c) It is not approved by experience. - (1) Has serious inequalities: Gustav Cohn in Political Science Quarterly, IV, 56 March 1889); Consular Reports...
WANTED. - Desk room in a college room in the yard. Will pay well. Address, "N," CRIMSON office...