Ground Rent, True Source of Public Revenue

Edward Withy

[date not known]

• Introductory
• Chapters 1-5:
  [1] What the Single Tax Methods Is; [2] What It Is Not; [3] It Supports "Freehold" Tenure; [4] The Line of Cleavage is Between Land Values and Labour Values; [5] It is to be Based Upon Valuation, and not Competition
• Chapters 6-10:
  [6] The Single Tax Contrasted with the Balance Land Tax; [7] The Single Tax Contrasted with Land Nationalisation; [8] "Tax" is not a Strictly Correct Term; [9] A New Principle is Embodied in the Proposal; [10] The Change, and Why it is Desired, Stated Briefly
• Chapters 11-15:
  [11] Ancient Land Grants, Feudalism, and the Mosaic System; [12] The Existing Central Fault is "Private" Monopolisation of Ground Rent; [13] Production is Stunted, Unjust Distribution and Poverty are Caused by this Central Fault; [14] Labour Versus Capital is an Incorrect Description of the Issue; [15] The Existence of Unoccupied Land Does Not Neutralise the Fault
• Chapter 16-20:
  [16] How it Might be Made To Do So; [17] Land Values is not a Colonial Asset; [18] Income from Ground Rent andfrom Dividends Contrasted; [19] The Single taxer's Definition of Ground Rent; [20] Ground Rent Must All be Taken for Public Purposes
• Chapter 21-25:
  [21] Sellling Value Killed by Nationalising Ground Rent; [22] A Land "Value" Tax is not an Additional Burden on Land; [23] The Effect Upon Landowners Produced by the Change; [24] The Resulting "Increase" of General Incomes, Employment, Production, and Savings; the Improved Opportunity for Self-Employment; [25] The Old "Stock Objections" Don't Apply
• Chapter 26-30:
  [26] Why the New Method Would be the Reverse of Oppressive; [27] It is the Fitting Sequel to the Abolition of the Corn Laws in England; [28] The Principle Obstacle to the Reform; [29] Four Objections to Giving Compensation; [30] Why the Reform Would Not be Unjust
• Chapter 31-recap-appendix:
  [31] The Hopefulness of the Reform to Wage-Earners Compared with the Expectations from Trades Unionism [*] Recapitulation; [**] Epilogue: The "Cause" of all the Trouble; [***] Appendix