 | Henry George - 1879 - 600 sayfa
...wealth. Taxation which falls upon labor as it is exerted, wealth as it is used as capital, and land as it is cultivated, will manifestly tend to discourage...in another way, could be borne with ease. A tax on date-trees, imposed by Mohammed Ali, caused the Egyptian fellahs to cut down their trees; but a tax... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - 104 sayfa
...discourage produc lion much more powerfully than taxation to the same amount levied upon labourers, whether they work or play, upon wealth whether used...properly adjusted, so a people may be impoverished and theii power of producing wealth destroyed by taxation which, if levied in another way, could be borne... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - 104 sayfa
...discourage production much more powerfully than taxation to the same amount levied upon labourers, whether they work or play, upon wealth whether used...trees, imposed by Mohammed Ali, caused the Egyptian fellahs to cut down their trees ; but a tax of twice the amount imposed on the land produced no such... | |
 | Henry George - 1884 - 476 sayfa
...waste. The mode of taxation is, in fact, quite as important as the amount. As a small burden hadly placed may distress a horse that could carry with...with ease. A tax on date trees, imposed by -Mohammed AH, caused the Egyptian fellahs to cut down their trees ; but a tax of twice the amount imposed on... | |
 | Henry George - 1911 - 594 sayfa
...laborers, whether they work or play, upon wealth whether used productively or uuproductively, or upon laud whether cultivated or left waste. The mode of taxation...in another way, could be borne with ease. A tax on date-trees, imposed by Mohammed Ali, caused the Egyptian fellahs to cut down their trees; but a tax... | |
 | L. W. Hoch - 1894 - 28 sayfa
...would not be a tax on production, but would aid and encourage production. "The mode of taxation is quite as important as the amount. As a small burden...if levied in another way could be borne with ease. Placing the burden of taxation upon the products of labor, discourages production. Placing the same... | |
 | Henry George - 1900 - 600 sayfa
...the use of any of the three factors of production, necessarily discourages production. Thus taxation which diminishes the earnings of the laborer or the...in another way, could be borne with ease. A tax on date-trees, imposed by Mohammed Ali, caused the Egyptian fellahs to cut down their trees; but a tax... | |
 | Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown - 1912 - 188 sayfa
...the use of any of the three factors of production, necessarily discourages production. Thus taxation which diminishes the earnings of the laborer or the...in another way, could be borne with ease. A tax on date-trees, imposed by Mohammed Ali, caused the Egyptian fellahs to cut down their trees ; but a tax... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1980 - 96 sayfa
...given. Henry George, the nineteenth century American economist, made the point in the following manner: The mode of taxation is, in fact, quite as important...much larger one properly adjusted, so a people may be improverished and the power of producing wealth destroyed by taxation, which, if levied in another... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1980 - 86 sayfa
...could carry with ease a much larger one properly adjusted, so a people may be improverished and the power of producing wealth destroyed by taxation, which, if levied in another way could be borne with ease.3 And among the many states and localities within the United States there exist numerous forms... | |
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The mode of taxation is, in fact, quite as important as the amount. As a small burden badly placed may distress a horse that could carry with ease a much larger one properly adjusted, so a people may be impoverished and their power of producing wealth... 
