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Amendments to Constitution and Proposed Statutes; With Arguments Respecting the Same, to Be Submitted to the Electors of the State of California at the General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 1914 ...

Amendments to Constitution and Proposed Statutes; With Arguments Respecting the Same, to Be Submitted to the Electors of the State of California at the General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 1914 ...


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...of this tax are devoted to purposes--namely, the support of the schools, roads, and hospitals--which there is no doubt the people will insist shall be maintained as liberally as ever. 1f this vast sum of $1,110,000 were raised by the general ad valorem tax, it would mean, all told, a tax of four cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of the state. 1t has been suggested by some that the loss might be made good by increasing the taxes upon corporations. This suggestion, of course, applies to the state's share, only, or $850,000, for there is no other way of raising the $260,000 which the counties would lose, except by the ad valorem tax. But when it is remembered that, at the last session of the legislature, the taxes on the corporations were raised as high as they justly could be, in the opinion of that body, it certainly can not be assumed that it would be right to immediately raise them still higher. The arguments against the poll tax are, first, that it is an old tax. There are lots of things among our institutions that are old, but are not necessarily, on that account, bad. Indeed, lt has sometimes even been argued that no tax is a pood tax except an old tax. 1t is argued that the tax is unequal, because the poor man pays as much as the rich man. This might be a valid argument if the poll tax stood all by itself. But the poll tax is one of many taxes and among the others are those which fall only upon the rich man and make his share commensurate with his ability. 1t is argued again that the poll tax is not uniformly enforced and that some escape. That, however, is not an argument against the poll tax as such, but merely an argument for the better enforcement of the law. 1n 1900 the poll tax yielded $404,000. Since then the administra...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130549553
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 136
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130549550
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 254 gr

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