Excerpt from Taxation by Valuation and the Evils Thereof

IN last June number of the land-taxers' journal, Land Values, the following statement occurs: Afar the war every one will be discussing how to pay of the enormous cost of it and where to find employment for the returning soldiers. You know that land is the only means of employment, and all that needs to be done to secure sufficient revenue is to tax land values.

One of the peculiarities of the so-called land-taxers' schemes is to confiscate land, and it is to be the means of conferring all sorts of benefits. Before the war it was going to do wonders in other directions, and now it is turned on as an idea to pay all the costs of the war. Another oddity will be noticed in the above statement, viz., that the returning soldiers are to find their employment on the land, and that in order to encourage and reward them, they are to have the land taxed, and they are to be taxed after fighting in order that others may be free of taxes.

The perusal of the statement in the Land Values paper induced me to think that it was very desirable that the public Should more fully understand their schemes, and I have endeavoured, in some way, to make this more clear herein; but it is impossible to do much in a small book. I would like to add that I have not written this for professional readers, as they are quite aware of the true meaning of this form of taxation, but I have, as much as possible, endeavoured to explain the complicated system already set up to the non-professional reader, and have indicated that it is only the stepping-stone to the scheme of land confiscation hidden under the cloak of taxation.

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