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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 4

Mr. Lloyd-George and his budgetary proposals have been received. with acclamation by Socialists, not only in this country, but throughout Europe. They are hailed evorywhero as expressing, more fully than Socialists in tlieir wildest, dreams dnrod to expect, tho quintessence of practical Socialism. For it is everywhere seen that the present limitations of his predatory doctrinos aro ; too flimsy to detract from the servico he is rendering to the cause. Tho arguinonts that are good against owners of land to-day will be equally good against the.owners' of other forms of property' t'o-morrow. If tho State has a right to take increment value alike from those who own it and from the communities said to have created it, the State will not long bo allowed to wrong itself by taking only one-fifth. If it is right to. tax capital in land at tho rate of a halfpenny in the pound, tho ncods of tho State will very shortly be pleaded as a reason for any larger impost that may suit a Chancellor of tho Exchequer, and likewise for applying the principle to capital values in.general. The exultation of tho Socialists is therefore'natural, and reasonable. —.. '"J'lie Times." ' '