Word: could
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Berle, Jr., '13 was the third speaker and chose the affirmative for his argument. The present infairness to the French peasant could best be corrected by the income tax, yet this tax is felt much less by the rich man than by the poor man. There is an inequality of sacrifice. But the solution is that the rich man should be taxed more in proportion to his income. In this way the income tax would force the people to be perfectly honest. France's income would be increased and the national debt would be diminished. An income tax more nearly...
...chose the negative side. Theoretically the burden of taxation is distributed as equally by the present system of taxation as it would be by the Income Tax of 1903, but in practice the former is far the more equitable. If the tax-payer wishes to avoid taxation, he could easily do so by the income tax. This tax fines a man's income directly whereas the present tax (the "mobilier") taxes a man on the rental value of his dwellings; and it is easy for a collector to ascertain the number of doors and windows in a house...
...state. Now, property is protected by the state and therefore the most equitable tax is based on property. Such are the taxes now in force in France but the executive is not strong enough to enforce these taxes. The income tax, therefore, does not fulfill the question because it could not be carried out any more successfully than the present system
...decrease by one game from the number of last year. considering that in the last two years the schedules have been very heavily cut, this unimportant reduction is certainly a reasonable concession to the demand, less insistent this year, for shortened schedules. It is doubtful whether the team could be properly developed if the number of games was any less...
...leading article Dr. Sargent argues well for medical supervision of athletics, and makes the suggestion that the "H" should perhaps be given to those men only who have all-round athletic ability. It would indeed be comforting to feel that your hammer-throwing specialist could at a pinch fill in creditably at baseball or hockey, or even turn a handspring upon a wager. Another serious article, by W. Lippmann, pleads for more robustness of interest, on the part of students, in American politics. By all means,--and in other matters too. "The Chinese Classics and Modern Research...