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IN OPERATION 



tempt them to let them go fancy figures which 

 must be paid, indirectly and directly too, by 

 those who make things.* 



We most stupidly and unfairly discriminate 

 in our assessments in favor of those who do 

 nothing but keep land idle, and against those 

 who develop and improve it. When the natural 

 opportunities and resources of the lands which 

 lie out of the cities are assessed for taxation, as 

 the law even now requires, up to their real and 

 full value, we shall have done much to solve the 

 problem of the congestion of towns and the un- 

 employed, and we shall have, not for the four 

 hundred but for the forty millions, an era of 

 prosperity of which we have not yet dreamed. 



* Land in Greater New York averages over $200,000 in value 

 for each acre. 



