Spencer Heath Archive

Item 164

Pencil by Heath on folded onion-skin paper.

No date

     What should be done about the modern concentration of wealth?

     Is business competition an evil that government should limit or restrain?

     Why is landlordism, especially absentee landlordism, regarded as evil?

     Is there any power in society to prevent government from destroying it by coercive taxation, inflation and public debt?

     Is there any alternative to the decline and fall of political governments?

     Is it better for people generally to own property and pay taxes or to rent or lease property and pay rent?

     Which is better off, a population of freeholders or leaseholders?

     Which holds the better future for wage workers, high profits and low wages or high wages and low profits?

     What prevents the high birth-rate among the “underprivileged” from increasing the proportion of unintelligent in a population?

     Does the practice of birth-control necessarily limit the growth of a population?

     What most expands productive capacity, high profits or high wages?