Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1052

Quote from C.B. Fillebrown, The ABC of Taxation, page 19 (this item was clipped to item 1051).

The farmer feeds the world; the landlord houses the world. Besides being the natural housers and the natural tax gatherers, the landlords are also the natural assessors. …With this triple responsibility and privilege of housing and tax collecting and tax assessing, landlords ought to be, as, if they paid all the taxes, they would be, the natural guardians of the public treasury against wastefulness and misapplication, for the simple reason that ground rent, while increased by every wise outlay, is decreased by every unwise expen­diture.    Page 19