Name: Philip Dru: Administrator — Chapter XXXI: The Question of Taxation
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Quotes from Philip Dru: Administrator — Chapter XXXI: The Question of Taxation (Colonel House)

Colonel House, Philip Dru: Administrator — Chapter XXXI: The Question of Taxation (1912)

“ As with the legal machinery he formed a board of five to advise with him, and to carry out his very well-defined ideas. Upon this board was a political economist, a banker, who was thought to be the ablest man of his profession, a farmer who was a very successful and practical man, a manufacturer and a Congressman, who for many years had been the consequential member of the Ways and Means Committee. All these men were known for their breadth of view and their interest in public affairs. ”

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Colonel House, Philip Dru: Administrator — Chapter XXXI: The Question of Taxation (1912)

“ This, Dru pointed out, would deter owners from holding unimproved realty, for the purpose of getting the unearned increment made possible by the thrift of their neighbors. In the country it would open up land for cultivation now lying idle, provide homes for more people, cheapen the cost of living to all, and make possible better schools, better roads and a better opportunity for the successful cooperative marketing of products. ”

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Colonel House, Philip Dru: Administrator — Chapter XXXI: The Question of Taxation (1912)

“ In other words, if A had one hundred acres with eighty acres of it in cultivation and otherwise improved, and B had one hundred acres beside him of just as good land, but not in cultivation or improved, B’s land should be taxed as much as A’s. ”

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Colonel House, Philip Dru: Administrator — Chapter XXXI: The Question of Taxation (1912)

“ As it was at that time, a poor man could not buy a home nor rent one near his work, but must needs go to the outskirts of his town, necessitating loss of time and cost of transportation, besides sacrificing the obvious comforts and conveniences of a more compact population.
The Administrator further directed the tax board to work out a graduated income tax exempting no income whatsoever. Incomes up to one thousand dollars a year, Dru thought, should bear a merely nominal tax of one-half of one per cent.; those of from one to two thousand, one per cent. ”

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Colonel House, Philip Dru: Administrator — Chapter XXXI: The Question of Taxation (1912)

“ He further directed that the tax on realty both in the country and the city should be upon the following basis:--Improvements on city property were to be taxed at one-fifth of their value, and the naked property either in town or country at two-thirds of its value. The fact that country property used for agricultural purposes was improved, should not be reckoned. ”

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Colonel House, Philip Dru: Administrator — Chapter XXXI: The Question of Taxation (1912)

“ For instance, when there was a lot, say, one hundred feet by one hundred feet with improvements upon it worth three hundred thousand dollars, and there was another lot of the same size and value, the improved lot should be taxed only sixty thousand more than the unimproved lot ”

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