 | 1901 - 998 σελίδες
...remembrance, for there is no grace in their gifts." The growing disposition in all highly civilized countries to tax more and more heavily large estates left at death is, he thinks, " a cheering indication of the growth of a salutary change in public opinion. ... Of all... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1901 - 624 σελίδες
...Carnegie's trust theory of wealth, he announces his unqualified support of the inheritance tax as " a cheering indication of the growth of a salutary change in public opinion." It is his thought that nations should go much further in this direction. " Indeed," he says, " it is... | |
 | 1890 - 1080 σελίδες
...then declares death-duties to be the wisest of all fontfs of taxation: and notices with pleasure ' the growing disposition to tax more and more heavily large estates' left to pass under testament. He thinks it difficult to set bounds to the share of a rich man's estate which... | |
 | 1891 - 844 σελίδες
...It is nol to be wondered at that bequests of this kind seem so geoerally to lack the blessing. [+l4 The growing disposition to tax more and more heavily...the growth of a salutary change in public opinion. The state of Pennsylvania now takes — subject to some exceptions — one-tenth of the property left... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on Taxation - 1894 - 184 σελίδες
...onerous, most successful and easiest collected. The noted multi-millionnaire Andrew Carnegie says : ' ' The growing disposition to tax more and more heavily...opinion. Of all forms of taxation this seems the wisest. It is desirable that nations go much further in this direction. Such taxes should be graduated, beginning... | |
 | Harlan Eugene Read - 1918 - 360 σελίδες
...by personal experience to render a fair opinion upon this subject than Andrew Carnegie. He says : " The growing disposition to tax more and more heavily...the growth of a salutary change in public opinion. . . . The budget presented in the British Parliament the other day proposed to increase the death duties... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1921 - 490 σελίδες
...just a few brief sentences from the "Gospel of Wealth." On page 11 Mr. Carnegie says: The grooving disposition to tax more and more heavily large estates...wisest. Men who continue hoarding great sums all their lives the proper use of which for public ends would work good to the community from which it chiefly... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1924 - 548 σελίδες
...time,, was a strong advocate of high taxes on large estates. In his book, Gospel of Wealth, he says : " The growing disposition to tax more and more heavily...indication of the growth of a salutary change in public oplniOD. Of all forms of taxation this seems the wisest. * * * By taxing estates heavily at death,... | |
 | Ross Lee Finney - 1922 - 310 σελίδες
...the plan was proposed years ago by one of our "captains of industry," Mr. Andrew Carnegie. He said: "The growing disposition to tax more and more heavily...the growth of a salutary change in public opinion. . . . The budget presented in the British Parliament the other day proposed to increase the death duties;... | |
 | Ross Lee Finney - 1922 - 304 σελίδες
...the plan was proposed years ago by one of our "captains of industry," Mr. Andrew Carnegie. He said: "The growing disposition to tax more and more heavily...the growth of a salutary change in public opinion. . . . The budget presented in the British Parliament the other day proposed to increase the death duties;... | |
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The growing disposition to tax more and more heavily large estates left at death is a cheering indication of the growth of a salutary change in public opinion . . .Of all forms of taxation this seems the wisest. 
