Part 17 (1/2)

2. What is the ”ethical argument” in favor of the single tax?

(_International Encyclopedia_, vol. 21, page 136.)

3. What is the ”expediency argument” in favor of the single tax?

(_International Encyclopedia_, vol. 21, page 136.)

4. What is meant by ”mining” the soil, and what is the relation of this practice to the single tax? (Carver, pages 375-376.)

5. What, according to George, would be the effect of the single tax upon production? (George, book ix, chapter i.)

6. What, according to George, would be the effect of the single tax upon the distribution of wealth? (George, book ix, chapter ii.)

7. What are the present aims of the single tax movement?

(_International Encyclopedia_, vol. 21, page 137.)

TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

I

1. Select for study a plot of farm or garden land in your locality.

(a) What is the market value of the land?

(b) Is it more or less valuable than similar plots in the same neighborhood? Why?

(c) To what extent is the value of the plot selected for study due to natural fertility?

(d) To what extent is the value due to location?

(e) To what extent is the value due to permanent improvements, such as drains, ditches, hedges, fences, or the use of fertilizer to retain or increase the natural fertility?

(f) If you were the owner of this plot, to what extent, if to any, would your future use of this land be affected by the adoption of the single tax program?

2. Select for study a plot of ground in your locality which has been idle for a number of years.

(a) Why has this ground been idle so long?

(b) Do you believe that this land is being held for speculative purposes?

(c) If so, suppose that a very heavy tax stimulated the owner to put the land to some use. Do you know of a productive use to which it could be put?

II

3. The life of Henry George. (Consult an encyclopedia.)

4. The economic background of Henry George's doctrine. (Young, _The Single Tax Movement in the United States_, chapter ii.)