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...every tax payer who is appalled at the present extravagance of the government," said Professor Swain in an interview for the CRIMSON, "the proposal cannot help but be welcome. Efficiency and economy are what we need in government work and this bill is a stop in that direction...
...business concern could organize this work on such a plan and expect success, or even solvency. In the case of the government there is only solvency because the poor tax payer pays the bill, no matter how high...
...speaker was A. D. Brigham '12 who chose the negative side. Theoretically the burden of taxation is distributed as equally by the present system of taxation as it would be by the Income Tax of 1903, but in practice the former is far the more equitable. If the tax-payer wishes to avoid taxation, he could easily do so by the income tax. This tax fines a man's income directly whereas the present tax (the "mobilier") taxes a man on the rental value of his dwellings; and it is easy for a collector to ascertain the number of doors...
...There is, as a matter of fact, very little to criticize in the relations of the college and the city. The fact that Harvard has a large amount of real estate which pays no taxes is sometimes complained of by the over-careful tax-payer, who has a feeling that his own taxes are thus made higher. There is probably, however, not a city in New England whose people would not gladly give the land, with perpetual exemption from taxation, if Harvard University would transfer itself within their borders. Harvard certainly contributes vastly more to the city in merely material...
...admission to the Indiana State Agricultural College, better known as the Purdue University. He tendered the required fees, affirmed that he was in all respects a fit person to be admitted to the institution, which he declared was maintained by donations from the General and State Governments, a tax-payer of which he was. Mr. Hawley had previously been a student at the university, and at the close of the term last spring had received an honorable dismissal. When he renewed his application for membership in September last the question was asked him if he had not, since his withdrawal...