GERMAN SOCIALISTS.
German Socialists are in practice moderate enough, but their theories sometimes outrun their common-sense. At their annual meeting, ju.st terminated, after a string of resolutions which are mostly sensible enough and are conceded here through the municipalities and the Poor Law, they proceed to demand Imperial taxation on both income and capital, and special taxes on houses and land. The latter proposal, in vktw of the con-, dition of the peasantry, indicates the old urban grudge against the country, while the tax on building is positively silly. The same men want cheaper housing. If private speculators are to provide it, what is the sense of taxing them? while if municipalities are to do the .work, why tax the rates which are to provide the money?
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)
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