SINGLE TAX.
TO TBB XDITOB OF THE STAB. Sir, —l wish someone would publish in your columns, witb your permission, a full and plain explanation as to what is really meant by "Single Tax." I may be very dense, but I confess I can make neither top nor tail of Mr Withy's explanation of it at the meeting of the Debating Club the other night, as published by you, nor Mr Dixon's observations thereon, published in this evening's Star. I have great faith in Adam Smith's first and principal maxim relative to taxation, generally —wbieh is sanctioned and approved of by all writers on political economy—and is as follows, viz.: •• The subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of Government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities—tbat is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy uuder the protection of the State." How Mr Withy's single tax can operate so as to effect the truth of this maxim, or override the long-established principles of taxation, I am anxiously waiting to know. —l am, Ac, Saul. Goodbehere. Feilding, 3rd July, 1896.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4, 4 July 1896, Page 2
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