The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71
Ground rent, the true source of public revenue; how to secure it for this purpose by means of the single tax
Contents
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- Introductory
- Chapter I. — What the Single Tax Method is p. 3
- Chapter II. — What it is Not
- Chapter III. — It Supports "Freehold" Tenure p. 4
- Chapter IV. — The Line of Cleavage is between Land Values and Labour Values p. 5
- Chapter V. — It is to be Based upon Valuation, and not Competition p. 7
- Chapter VI. — The Single Tax Contrasted with the Ballance Land Tax p. 8
- Chapter VII. — The Single Tax Contrasted with Land Nationalisation p. 9
- Chapter VIII. — "Tax" is not a Strictly Correct Term p. 11
- Chapter IX. — A New Principle is Embodied in the Proposal p. 14
- Chapter X. — The Change, and why it is Desired, Stated Briefly p. 17
- Chapter XI — Ancient Land Grants, Feudalism, and the Mosaic System
- Chapter XII. — The Existing Central Fault is "Private" Monopolisation of Ground Rent p. 21
- Chapter XIII. — Production is Stunted, Unjust Distribution and Poverty Are Caused, by this Central Fault p. 23
- Chapter XIV. — Labour Versus Capital is an Incorrect Description of the Issue p. 29
- Chapter XV. — The Existence of Unoccupied Land does not Neutralise the Fault p. 31
- Chapter XVI. — How it Might be made to do so p. 35
- Chapter XVII. — Land Value is not a Colonial Asset p. 38
- Chapter XVIII. — Income from Ground Rent and from Dividends Contrasted p. 40
- Chapter XIX. — The Single Taxer's Definition of Ground Rent p. 42
- Chapter XX. — Ground Rent must all be Taken for Public Purposes p. 44
- Chapter XXI. — Selling Value Killed by Nationalising Ground Rent p. 45
- Chapter XXII. — A Land "Value" Tax is not an Additional Burden on Land p. 46
- Chapter XXIII. — The Effect upon Landowners Produced by the Change p. 47
- Chapter XXIV. — The Resulting "Increase" of General Incomes, Employment, Production, and Savings; the Improved Opportunity for Self-Employment p. 51
- Chapter XXV. — The Old "Stock Objections" Don't Apply p. 56
- Chapter XXVI. — Why the new Method would be the Reverse of Oppressive
- Chapter XXVII. — It is the Fitting Sequel to the Abolition of the Corn Laws in England p. 59
- Chapter XXVIII. — The Principal Obstacle to the Reform p. 60
- Chapter XXIX. — Four Objections to Giving Compensation
- Chapter XXX. — Why the Reform would Not Be Unjust p. 70
- Chapter XXXI. — The Hopefulness of the Reform to Wage-Earners Compared with the Expectations from Trades Unionism p. 75
- Recapitulation p. 77
- Epilogue — (Spoken by "the Crows"). — The "Cause" of all the Trouble p. 81