Excerpt from Toil, Taxes and Trouble ON lincoln's birthday in 1948, the name of Vivien Kellems was known only to the limited circle of her own friends and acquaintances. On Washington's birthday nearly everybody in the United States was talking about her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Taxation: A Problem Lastly we have the great class who do not pay any direct taxes, other than a poll tax (and seldom even that), who must have schools, parks and playgrounds, and expect their more fortunate friends to pay for them. They know nothing and care nothing about taxation but are important as a class in that their votes elect many members of our legislatures and city councils who do not as a rule pay taxes to any material amount. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Rates and Taxes, and How They Were Collected With regard to the choice of title, they are lead to imagine, even from their own modest experiences, that "Rates and Taxes" are, alas! things that come home to every man. The writer of these lines, looking back to the introduction of "The Bunch of Keys," finds it there said that "this Christmas volume is the growth of friendly communion, of pleasant chats of an evening, of fellowship of taste and feeling." He is very grateful to know that those words may be prefixed to this volume also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Disproportion of Taxation in Pittsburgh First: The schedule of tax rates, untangled to a great extent by the abolition of the district school taxes, should be further simplified and Should be kept simple. There are often local responsibilities which are SO peculiar to the annexed territory that they should be shouldered for a short time at least by the individuals or community in which they originated, but the period of readjustment should be made as brief as possible. Second: The machinery for an annual, instead Of a triennial, assessment of all city real estate should be set to work. Taxes are levied annually and city budgets are planned annually; the basis for the raising of these taxes should also be made up annually. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Income Taxes The increasmg difference between those who owned property and those who did not gradually led to the selection of that test as the basis of taxation, and ulti mately produced the general property tax. This being the prevailing system of taxation during the forma tive period of our history, it was adopted by all the American states and still constitutes the framework of their tax systems. In 1912 it was estimated that the property tax produced not less than 75 per cent. Of all our public revenue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.