ISBN: 9781152725652

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...to the press for aiding them to make collections of the taxes under the present revenue bill. We ask no exception on that score, but we submit, and I hope to demonstrate that our relations to industry; yes, and our relation to Government itself is such that we should not be called upon to pay an extra tax, a supertax, or, what some of our publishers have regarded as punitive damages for wrongs, real or fancied, which may have been suffered by public men at the hands of the more popular mediums of thought. SUBSIDY CHARGE RIDICULOUS The charge has been made that we, the publishers, have been enjoying a subsidy at the hands of the Government, and that we must now be made to disgorge and to pay a prohibitive postal rate in the future. To that charge we take emphatic exception. A low transportation charge on intelligence is no more of a subsidy to the publisher than a low freight rate on wheat is a subsidy to the farmer. It is no more of a subsidy to the publisher than the money spent on public highways is a subsidy to vehicle owners. If you, in your wisdom, should decide to place an extra tax upon the coal producers, would you set about it by raising the freight rate on coal? Obviously the only effect would be to contract the area over which the coal could be shipped and to increase the price to the consumers within that district. The converse of this proposition is necessarily true---that a low freight rate is obviously of primary benefit to consumers. You annually appropriate millions of dollars to maintain navigable streams. Do you do this for the benefit of the navigation companies which operate boats for a profit, or is it in the interest of the national welfare to maintain every possible channel of intercommunication. It is not a question of a Go... Charles Johnson Post, Books, History, Some postal economics with special reference to the postal zone system and Postal Zone Law of 1917 Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781152725652

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...to the press for aiding them to make collections of the taxes under the present revenue bill. We ask no exception on that score, but we submit, and I hope to demonstrate that our relations to industry; yes, and our relation to Government itself is such that we should not be called upon to pay an extra tax, a supertax, or, what some of our publishers have regarded as punitive damages for wrongs, real or fancied, which may have been suffered by public men at the hands of the more popular mediums of thought. SUBSIDY CHARGE RIDICULOUS The charge has been made that we, the publishers, have been enjoying a subsidy at the hands of the Government, and that we must now be made to disgorge and to pay a prohibitive postal rate in the future. To that charge we take emphatic exception. A low transportation charge on intelligence is no more of a subsidy to the publisher than a low freight rate on wheat is a subsidy to the farmer. It is no more of a subsidy to the publisher than the money spent on public highways is a subsidy to vehicle owners. If you, in your wisdom, should decide to place an extra tax upon the coal producers, would you set about it by raising the freight rate on coal? Obviously the only effect would be to contract the area over which the coal could be shipped and to increase the price to the consumers within that district. The converse of this proposition is necessarily true---that a low freight rate is obviously of primary benefit to consumers. You annually appropriate millions of dollars to maintain navigable streams. Do you do this for the benefit of the navigation companies which operate boats for a profit, or is it in the interest of the national welfare to maintain every possible channel of intercommunication. It is not a question of a Go... Charles Johnson Post, Books, History, Some postal economics with special reference to the postal zone system and Postal Zone Law of 1917 Books>History <

ISBN: 9781152725652

Charles Johnson Post, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General Some-postal-economics-with-special-reference-to-the-postal-zone-system-and-Posta… More...

Charles Johnson Post, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General Some-postal-economics-with-special-reference-to-the-postal-zone-system-and-Postal-Zone-Law-of-1917~~Charles-Johnson-Post General Books LLC<