279. On whom does a tax of a fixed proportion of agricultural produce fall?
280. Discuss the question whether the income-tax ought to be a tax upon income and property, or upon expenditure.
281. Discuss the expediency of a graduated income-tax.
282. State the arguments which you think strongest both for and against exempting savings from the income-tax.
283. Explain the conditions which should be observed in imposing taxes on commodities.
284. What taxes does a tradesman get back in the price of the articles he sells, and what does he not?
285. Test by Adam Smith's four maxims of taxation the policy of indirect taxes on the necessaries of life.
286. All indirect taxation violates Adam Smith's fourth canon.
287. Discuss the following:
“A man with $100,000 in United States bonds comes to Boston, hires a house...; thus he lives in luxury.... I am in favor of taxing idle investments such as this, and allowing manufacturing investments to go untaxed.”