Land-value PolicyUnited committee for the taxation of land values, 1924 - 205 pages |
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Agricultural Rates Act amount annual land-value annual rent applied ARTHUR HENDERSON assessed authorised buildings burdens capital land-value Chapter charge contract Corn Laws Corn Production Acts Crown cultivation deduction deer Duty earth economic rent entitled exemption Finance full site values H. C. Debates H. H. ASQUITH Henry George imposed improvements Income Tax increase industry interest labour land-value policy land-value rating Land-value Tax landed property landlord Lands Valuation Scotland Law of Property law of rent lease legal estates LEO TOLSTOY Lord machinery mortgage nation occupier owner Patrick Edward Dove payable payment person practice principles productive lands Progress and Poverty Property Act proportional contribution proprietor purposes rates and taxes rating of land-values reform registration rentcharge repeal revenue Scotland secure selling value Social Statics soil sub-head taxation and rating taxation of land-values tenant tion tithe tithe-owner tithe-rentcharge valuation of land wages wealth
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Page 194 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 54 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes.
Page 173 - If every just man, that now pines with want, Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store...
Page 186 - Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite? Who made ten thousand people owners of the soil, and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
Page 181 - ... must be applied for the supply of all his desires; for even the products of the sea cannot be taken, the light of the sun enjoyed, or any of the forces of nature utilized, without the use of land or its products.
Page 183 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 184 - Knowing this, that never yet Share of Truth was vainly set In the world's wide fallow ; After hands shall sow the seed, After hands from hill and mead Reap the harvests yellow.
Page 67 - Separate ownership would merge into the joint-stock ownership of the public. Instead of being in the possession of individuals, the country would be held by the great corporate body— society. Instead of leasing his acres from an isolated proprietor, the farmer would lease them from the nation. Instead of paying his rent to the agent of Sir John or his Grace, he would pay it to an agent or deputy agent of the community. Stewards would be public officials instead of private ones, and tenancy the...
Page 66 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 177 - What is necessary for the use of land is not its private ownership, but the security of improvements. It is not necessary to say to a man, "this land is yours," in order to induce him to cultivate or improve it. It is only necessary to say to him, "whatever your labor or capital produces on this land shall be yours.