Is it right to tax the three for $1000 each?
11. A taxpayer worth $100,000 in personal property makes no return to
the assessors. In their ignorance the assessors tax him for $50,000
only, and the tax is paid without question. Does the taxpayer act
honourably?
12. What difficulties beset the work of the assessors?
13. Would anything be gained by exempting personal property from
taxation? If so, what? Would anything be lost? If so, what?
14. Does any one absolutely escape taxation?
15. Does the poll-tax payer pay, in any sense, more than his poll-tax?
16. Are there any taxes that people pay without seeming to know it? If
so, what? (See below, chap. viii. section 8.).
17. Have we clans to-day among ourselves? (Think of family reunions,
people of the same name in a community, descendants of early settlers,
etc.). What important differences exist between these modern so-called
clans and the ancient ones?
18. What is a "clannish" spirit? Is it a good spirit or a bad
one? Is it ever the same as patriotism?
19. Look up the meaning of _ham_, _wick_, and _stead_. Think of towns
whose names contain these words; also of towns whose names contain the
word _tun_ or _ton_ or _town_.
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