Compact Cities, a Neglected Way of Conserving Energy: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the City of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, December 11 and 12, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 473 páginas |
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Página 294 - Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.
Página 153 - Land, which is a necessity of human existence, which is the original source of all wealth, which is strictly limited in extent, which is fixed in geographical position — land, I say, differs from all other forms of property in these primary and fundamental conditions.
Página 155 - The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine ; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Página 155 - In allowing one man to own the land on which and from which other men must live, we have made them his bondsmen in a degree which increases as material progress goes on. This is the subtle alchemy that in ways they do not realize is extracting from the masses in every civilized country the fruits of their weary toil...
Página 207 - Wherever any constitutional provision or statute provides for, limits or measures the power or authority of any county, municipality or other taxing authority to levy taxes, borrow money or incur indebtedness in relation to the assessment of property therein for state taxes or for state and county taxes, such provision shall mean as assessed for county or municipal taxes, as the case may be.
Página 204 - All private passenger automobiles and motor trucks of the type commonly known as "pickups" or "pickup trucks" owned and operated by an individual for personal or private use and not for hire, rent or compensation. (b) With respect to ad valorem taxes levied by the state, all taxable property shall be forever taxed at the same rate. On and after October 1, 1978, such property shall be assessed for ad valorem tax purposes according to the classes thereof as herein defined at the following ratios of...
Página 155 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Página 155 - The teachings of your single taxer. Henry George, will be the basis of our program of reform. The land tax as the only means of supporting the government is an infinitely just, reasonable and equitably distributed tax, and on it we will found our new system.
Página 155 - ... in a cultivated state. And as it is impossible to separate the improvement made by cultivation, from the earth itself, upon which that improvement is made, the idea of landed property arose from that inseparable connection; but it is nevertheless true, that it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property.
Página 365 - ... transfer. In German practise the tax system of our dependency Kiautschou presents an example of direct increment taxation. The tax is levied at the rate of 33J per cent, after the elapse of each twenty-five years. But this case, interesting as it is, stands alone. Hence a systematic exposition may be confined to the indirect class. This I shall undertake as to its object, date of reckoning, rate, and the like. Object. — The object upon which the increment-tax is levied is the unearned increase...