Excerpt from Speech on Local Taxation Was paid every year in local burdens, or every five years they paid in local burdens the whole amount of the aggre gate income of real property, and exactly one-eighth of its value in poor rate assessment alone; such exceptional exactions to which the owners of real property were sub j ected, were monstrous, intolerable, and almost incredible. He would now endeavour briefly to compare the amount raised by Local Taxation with the amount annually raised by Imperial Taxation. The estimate of Imperial Taxation for 1870 1 was 67, 000, 000. If you deducted from that amount 27, for the interest of the national debt, you had 40, for defraying the expenses of the army and navy, for the civil service, and for all the purposes iof modern government. You had that of Impe rial Taxation as against of Local Taxation. But the comparison did not end there. Imperial Taxation was simple, it was intelligible, it was annually decreasing, and was being annually revised. Local Taxation, on the contrary, was a Chaos. It was confusion confounded, was a sort of thing which, as Lord Dundreary would say, no fellow could understand. It was annually 1ncreasing, and the basis of it had not been altered for 300 years. The public at large had no reason whatever to complain of Imperial Taxation. It was said, and he believed it, that it was equitably imposed, systematically collected, and economically expended. The right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who held the purse strings, was generally supposed to be a close-fisted gentleman, and he was responsible to the House and to the nation for Imperial Taxation. But Local Taxation was unjustly levied it was the most oppressive part of our public burdens, it was unsystematically collected, and, moreover, the number of rating authorities might almost be called legion, and there was little or no responsibility among' them. Further, one did not know for what purposes Local Taxation was raised, nor in what proportionate amounts it was expended. The poor, the labouring classes. 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 Local Taxation, Especially in English Cities and Towns: A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons, on March 23rd, 1886 As the burden of local taxation in towns is growing heavier and heavier on occupiers, and as in Scotland and Ireland half the local taxation is paid by owners, I deter mined as early as possible to bring the subject before the new Parliament, and I did so with success, carrying my motion by a majority of forty. This, the first defeat which the country party has sustained on the subject of local taxation for years, is of great interest to townspeople, especially to shopkeepers, and with the View of attracting their attention, the speech has been published. 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 Reports and Speeches on Local Taxation The question of the incidence of rates as between owners and occupiers, which I consider to be the most important point in the whole controversy respecting Local Taxation, has been more fully dealt with by me in my Draft Report submitted to the Select Committee (vide post, pp. 163 - 172) than in any other portion of the present volume. 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 Local Taxation: Being a Speech Delivered by Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., M. P., In the House of Commons, March 28th, 1884, on the Occasion of Seconding the Resolution of Mr. Albert Pell 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 Local Taxation and Poor Law Administration in Great Cities: A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons, 22nd June, 1869 I contend in the first place with the hon. Baronet the member for South Devon (sir M. Lopes) that a large portion of the wealth of this country altogether escapes contributing to local taxation, and that this exemption is unjust towards the rest of the community. I maintain, further, that the change in the law of settlement, joined to the increasing facilities and cheapness of locomotion, together with an imperfect administration of the Poor Law throughout this country, has had the effect of throwing upon the large towns great masses of pauperism which, though created elsewhere, yet fall upon their local rates. I maintain in fact that the alteration in the law of settlement. 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 Burke's Speech on American Taxation In the Introduction to this edition Burke's speeches and writings are not discussed In chronological order, but collected into groups according to their subjects. This method enables the student to realize exactly what Burke accomplished for the causes which he championed. An effort is also made not merely to tell the names Of his speeches, but to sum up in a sentence their main arguments. The Notes are rather full, giv ing all the information a student needs for a complete under standing Of the speech. Theoretically it is better for a student to hunt up the information, but in practice nine-tenths of the students have neither time nor Opportunity for this work. The text is that of Dodsley's second edition, 1775, except that the spelling has been made to conform to that of the other books Of this series. 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.