 | 1901 - 998 pages
...to feel that the community, in the form of the State, cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death, the State marks...condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life." He would have the inheritance tax rapidly progressive, beginning at nothing upon small holdings needed... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1890 - 1080 pages
...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 on his death should go to the public. He holds, indeed, that such taxes should leave unscathed moderate... | |
 | 1891 - 844 pages
...to feel that the community, i» the form of the State cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death, the State marks...is difficult to set bounds to the share of a rich man s tt a . c .w estate which should go at bis death to the public through the agency of the State,... | |
 | 1891 - 616 pages
...perfectly in the conclusion that, of all forms of taxation this is one of the wisest, that, "by taxing the estates heavily at death, the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life." Mr. West comes to the following conclusion: "It certainly seems no more than fair that the cost of... | |
 | Bernard Alderson - Industrialists - 1902 - 272 pages
..."erects a monument to his own folly," for it is very seldom his expressed desires are realized afterward. "By taxing estates heavily at death, the State marks...condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life." Mr. Carnegie holds that the man of wealth should personally superintend the distribution of his assets.... | |
 | 1906 - 1102 pages
...a man will die rich, then a graded inheritance tax should be levied upon his possessions. He says : "By taxing estates heavily at death the State marks...condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life." The great iron magnate approves the raising of the per cent, of taxes on inheritances until at least... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - Social problems - 1915 - 500 pages
...advocates among men of great wealth. Twenty years ago Mr. Andrew Carnegie wrote in a magazine article : "By taxing estates heavily at death the state marks...to the public through the agency of the state." And in his Gospel of Wealth he says: "There are exceptions to all rules, but not more exceptions, we think,... | |
 | Harlan Eugene Read - Decedents' estates - 1918 - 360 pages
...to feel that the community, in the form of the State, cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death the State marks...condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life. The State's refusal to transfer it when he dies will not affect his work and neither his own business... | |
 | Harlan Eugene Read - Inheritance and succession - 1919 - 360 pages
...portion at least will serve a socially useful purpose." XII. CARNEGIE AND OTHERS ON THE INHERITANCE TAX " By taxing estates heavily at death, the state marks...condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life. It IB desirable that nations should go much farther in this direction." Andrew Carnegie in North American... | |
 | Philip Snowden Snowden (Viscount) - Finance - 1920 - 184 pages
...to handicap his son with such a burden of great wealth." In the North American Review he wrote : " By taxing estates heavily at death the State marks...life. It is desirable that nations should go much farther in this direction." He also wrote in the New Nation on March 4, 1893, that " drastic application... | |
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... should be made to feel that the community, in the form of the State, cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death the State marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life. 
