The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-11
SITE VALUE TAXATION.

the single plan worked into system. with
"a constitutional provision that would leave the people
free adopt intelligent of taxation they
may fly
Explaining the single tax idea economic writer in
the Detroit Journal says:
site-tax is the taking for public that value
which attaches location because of influences outside
Of anything the exclusive owner of location may
have DONE
1t is not tax on labor
It is not a tax capital.
It is a private wealth.
1t is products either for sale for pri-
vate
, 1t is not a tax enterprise.
It is not a human exertion in any form.
1t leaves to those with property all the> wealth their
exertions have created
Those who sweat and toll produce utilities lux
uries, those vitality activities
contemplating increasing the total Of human happi
ness, disturbed their possessions by the
tax.
= site-vaue arises only when two persons desire the
exclusive of the sameocation increases should
third want it, II thousands cast longing
it what once had value only be obtained by out
bidding others-paying dollars for square feet.
What is taken by the ste-ta1 is communal creation;
each individual within the sphere of it's influence
contributed it, , >'' '; -
Public expenses arise in proportion to the number of
Inhabitants given The alone in the
wilderness has public expenses to meet with him
In agricultural community nconsiderable Public
in city large Labor in the country is less
productive than in the city In the country the
Of time in reaching obvious: In city
producers and consumers close together. And, in
addition to the saving of time and the of exchange
when the distance be short production
increased when considerable number cooperate just
as two more men build house in fewer hours
/ and with less exertion than can
- In the country each family has it's wel the
terms of human exertion water cheaper in the city
than in the country. And this principle applies all
public activities in localities where there any
siderable number of human beings.
= Site-values reflect these economies. ~.
is healthier better and cheaper to do things COL
lectvey than attempt Individually Collec
tive production collective bargaining, ste-values
possible.
IT, 1t is not only economically sound officially
unassailable for the community through regularly
constituted officials selected purpose appro
pirate, in the form of site-tax, communymade site
values For by it one is deprived of anything his
own e1erton would produce independent of the values
helped to be created by his neighbors.
" The beneficial effect industry OF site-tax lieu
al other taxes such levied enterprise
industry it almost impossible exaggeate 1t would
simulate human activities in all directions the great
est possible extent, rewards would be
proportion to the labor expended would from
the grip OF monopoly every of arabic land
cation holding unused facilities for business Innmed
atey the demand for labor would be greater than the
supply, and the manmade economic condition of more
obess workers than there jobs would be changed
to more jobs demanding workers than there were
d workers. ":' '">| vsfAa
Thus the application of the site-tax close the gan
between extremes Of poverty and riches with In
operation would go hungry or
Or naked if he had any desire be wealth producer
Charity is but amelioraton for the crime; 81
society 49,. ...,.'. ~ :
The spirit Of truth and the spirit of freedom-hey
v are the pillars Of society:-Ibsen. z%2
Oh what difference makes whether man is 3uds.
fng another or himself! Goethe q E%..
Has unemployment struck znonarchs Of Europse
sSEfS 49, 49, - - t;T4e -
hi Drop an and married becomes nnarred ~ + +
Without trade unions the wage workers Will ns4sr be
Justly treated matter what the prevailing social sy
% tenn maybe. The Plasterer. 49, +: S%s*4@
8Sh R%i $500 -------
Poverty is not crime but the penalty, nevertheless
Is Il hard labor: - -! 5E&s @.% =, E@z
#s It's the pinched Big that squesls s8
The working voluntarily resnains si1. HUI
is not only but xo an