All Posts Tagged With: "William Graham Sumner"
High Taxes in Britain
Mr. Heffernan is an economic journalist and director o] the London financial newspaper, City Press. The british, called by Napoleon a nation of shopkeepers, have become a nation of tax payers. The number liable to tax has climbed to a peak of five out of six workers. Over a third of the income of the [...]
1Mar1956 | John Heffernan | 1 comment | ContinuedProtective Taxes And Wages
From an essay in the North American Review, January, 1883. pp. 270-276. The discussion of protectionism in the United States constantly turns upon questions of wages. The question has two forms. The employed argue that protective taxes will make their wages high. The employers argue that protection is necessary for them, because they have to [...]
1Nov1955 | William Graham Sumner | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Forgotten Man
Mr. Chamberlain, the well-known literary critic, is also an associate editor of Barron’s. He’s the one from whom the money is taken to subsidize the others A nation begins to decline when it neglects its own classics. But no trend is necessarily permanent, and classics can come back. Take the case of William Graham Sumner’s [...]
1Sep1955 | John Chamberlain | 4 comments | Continued-
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