The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-09-26

tice Brandes and Poutney Bgeow all joined And the first
Single Taxer knew also the first great manutac
turer 1 ever knew.
moment but know what has stood in its way it is too
simple logical, and too just The taxes people
clamor for complicated and vicious Witness our adj
herence the duties which infinite Difficult
ties in collection Ubiquitous to some and far too favorable
to Others complex that few of take the tantest
trouble understand them Or inheritance and income
They brought into being whole classification OF
lawyers and thousands of These are the taxes
ask for and ge with the help OF Congresses we painfully
elect for that purpose What more these taxes are
ncertan they always failing to bring in the required or
expected and while tariff being discussed
folds up despair not knowing what the verdict OF
the Jury will be- Congress discussing tax
bill for nearly year-and that year happened to be IN
which industrial and commercial activities had all gone to
po-as the result of another tax BILL among other things
We Want More
So is no wonder reject the Single Tax The very
idea that will be enough to keep the GoVernment
running ofends TASTE which has grown used to multi
picaton of everything. Furthermore, the Single lax IS
levied, roughly, land and we no longer THINK OF our
selves as a country primarily agricultural Mrs burger
quotes: Rent Of land belongs to the people and 1t IS
the first duty of government to collect it,? which take TO
be fundamental tenet of Single Taxation and which sug
ges that Single Takers do not propose to Gov
eminent the proceeds of tax on abandoned farms IN
Vermont.
The basic idea as it has been explained to me- is that
when the State Of New York built, at public
highway through the Bronx Hutchinson River valley
the increase the value Of all the land near by
not due to anything the OF the land had done
It due to something you and had DONE acting through
the State Therefore you and las the State-Were en-
titled the profit good share of it. And on the other
sde if proposed to keep private garden four square
blocks along the lake front in Chicago ought to be made
to pay as the of hotels in the same
district In effect, of would land individually
because all of us would all the land and take the
profits of land in rent but would own the improve
ments made land, and there would be amusement
and income tax and bad ides of March and no
lobbies in Congress.
The Morals of Taxes
One trouble with the Single Tax is that it has sound
moral basis which no is quite willing to admit In the
Wendell saterny tenements and lumber
yards left in the midst of great business houses and sky
scrapers good times the value of the lots which the
tenements yards stood would be thousand times the
price paid by the original Wendell and Wendell
Wendell heir had contributed anything to make
those lots valuable The growth of the city had done
that Yet the Wendell heirs could take the profit The moral
argument is that this isn't right.
We all think until possess just that kind Of parcel
of land. Then talk of sagacy in holding or
the sacred rights of properor anything to change, the
subject. For know aren't really in danger Of the
Single Tax. Because, a has said, there isn't
valid argument against it and there isn't chance in the
world it will be adopted Brand Whitlock added that the
Single Tax will have to wait because it is fundamental
''and mankind attacks fundamental problems until it
has exhausted all the superficial ones Quite few of the
latter coming up right Turn the radio.
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