4. Interview a friendly tax assessor concerning the difficulties of determining property values. Does he believe that people systematically undervalue their own property? What proposals does he make for the reform of the present method of assessment?
5. Interview a friendly taxpayer. What is his attitude toward the poll tax? the general property tax? the income tax? What proposals does he make for the reform of taxation in your state?
6. The general property tax in your state.
7. Status of the income tax in your state.
8. Status of the inheritance tax in your state.
9. The taxation of corporations in your state.
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10. Federal revenues. (Guitteau, Government and Politics in the United States, chapter xxix.)
11. Public expenditures. (Ely, Outlines of Economics, chapter xxxi; Seager, Principles of Economics, chapter xxvi; Plehn, Introduction to Public Finance, Part II, chapter i; Bullock, Selected Articles on Public Finance, chapter iii; Ford, The Cost of Our National Government.)
12. The power of Congress to tax. (Young, The New American Government and its Work, chapter v; Beard, American Government and Politics, chapter xiii.)