(3) Why was not the Prudential Company investigated? Their premiums are about the same as the others. In talking with their agents I find them the same as agents of the “Big Three.”
(4) Is Paul Morton treating the policy holders justly when he takes $80,000 per year as his salary?
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ANSWER
(1) Single Tax puts all the burden of supporting the Government on one form of wealth, viz.: the value of land.
Populism equalizes taxation, and would compel each owner of property to pay in proportion to his wealth.
The Single Taxer would put all the load on land, leaving money, stocks, bonds and personal property of every sort untaxed.
Populists cannot see any justice in taking the value out of the land of the farmer, while twelve billion dollars of railroad stocks and bonds go untaxed.