14 RATES AND TAXES 



pays nothing. Inequities of a similar kind 

 arise in the case of licenses of all kinds, 

 certain classes pay whilst others escape 

 free. 



It is a much more serious objection, on 

 the ground of equity, to the present system 

 of imposing local rates for national and 

 onerous services that, from the nature of 

 the case, the charges vary from place to 

 place. Persons with the same incomes, 

 earned in the same way, pay different rates 

 simply according to their locality. The 

 education rate, it is said, varies from 3d. 

 to more than 35. in the . If education 

 is properly regarded as a national 

 charge, then such local differential taxes 

 are inequitable. It would be equally 

 unfair to vary the inhabited house duty, 

 imposed for general imperial purposes. 

 Everyone knows it is uniform from place 

 to place, and if so, why should not rates also 



