Philip Dru: Administrator; a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 ..
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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 THE QUESTION OF TAXATION 179 and a better opportunity for the successful co- operative marketing of products. In the cities and towns, it would mean a more homogeneous population, with better streets, better sidewalks, better sewerage, more convenient churches and cheaper rents and homes. As it was at that time, a p...oor man could not buy a home nor rent one near his work, but must needs go to the out- skirts of his town, necessitating loss of time and cost of transportation, besides sacrificing the obvious comforts and conveniences of a more compact pop- ulation. 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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