TAXATION OF IDLE LAND PROPOSED IN MAINE
Taxation of Idle Land Proposed in Maine ABILL has been introduced in the Maine Legislature providing for a tax on unimproved lands. Its object is to make land which the owners persistently refuse...
...Advocates of the measure, some of whom are advocates of Henry George's ideas of the taxation of land values as a means of abolishing poverty and forcing idle lands into use, state that the purpose of the proposed law is to tax land into use and out of the hands of mere speculators who profit from increases in values for which, not they themselves, but the whole community is respensible...
...It is an act along the lines which have been advocated by a number of students of the subject of taxation for several years...
...A dispatch to the Portland Daily Press states that "this is not a single tax measure as some who read it may suppose...
...Its object is to make land which the owners persistently refuse to improve or permit to be improved, bear its equitable part of the costs of government...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 8
