Now ground-rent is payment for the labor of nature! ❋ Skzbrust (2009)
When land is held out of use, the cost of its use (the basic ground-rent) raises due to the competition of the amount of it that remains available for use. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This results in high production costs due to excessive ground-rent having to be paid by the entrepreneur, and consequently the amount of production is reduced and the demand for the product is slowed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The regulation of these land rights is a natural result of the introduction of the taxation of land values (after the value has been publicly declared on up-dated land maps) and the free use of earnings and money use outside of ground-rent on natural resources. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Every proprietor therefore . . . owes to the community a ground-rent . . . for the land which he holds, or Land Value TaxLVT. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The revenue is composed of three principal items; an ounce ($16) per head of negro embarked at Porto da Lenha; four per cent, on all goods sold, and, lastly, a hundred hard dollars monthly ground-rent — £l92 (English pound symbol) a year. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sometimes, as in the final, uncompleted chapter of Das Kapital (1867-95) which represents his most self-conscious effort to present a theory of strati - fication, Marx adopted the trichotomous functional scheme of Adam Smith, e.g.: “the owners merely of labor-power, owners of capital, and landowners, whose respective sources of income are wages, profit, and ground-rent ...” ❋ LEWIS A. COSER (1968)
I bought one of these houses, subject to the ground-rent, and moved into it as soon as finished. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
He could not help seeing, as in a mirror, under the veil of the mysterious postscript, the reflection of seven hundred thousand francs of ground-rent which made the splendid income of the General. ❋ Various (N/A)
But, shortly after the grant of an extended term to Sir W. Milman, handsome streets of family houses sprung up, and it was computed that a ground-rent of at least 1,600_l_. would accrue to the charity on the expiration of his lease. ❋ Various (N/A)
Paine urged the taxation of land values -- the payment to the community of a ground-rent -- and argued for death duties as "the least troublesome method" of raising revenue. ❋ Joseph Clayton (N/A)
In fact, the whole of the land in and about Athens is now the property of foreigners, who are speculating on the immense prices to be obtained for ground-rent, &c. ❋ John Auldjo (N/A)
The best building-lots are now in the air, and to be had without ground-rent. ❋ Various (N/A)
Granted also it is, that in this my language, I seem unto myself, as a London mason, who calculateth his work for a term of years, when he buildeth with old material upon a ground-rent that is not his own, which soon turneth to rubbish and ruins. ❋ Melville, Lewis (1921)
But, in order to show that he did not live there as on a property wholly his, as well as for a mark of his gratitude to his benefactors, he took care to have taken yearly to the Abbey of Mount Soubazo, as a ground-rent, a basket of fish, a species of mullet, which is taken in quantities in the River Asi, or Chiascio, near the Church of St. Mary of the Angels. ❋ Chalippe, Father Candide (1917)
The enthusiasm which existed when the house was built had long since abated, and its trustees had not been able to procure fresh contributions for paying the ground-rent, and discharging some other debts the building had occasiond, which embarrassd them greatly. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The contrivers of taxes have, probably, found some difficulty in ascertaining what part of the rent ought to be considered as ground-rent, and what part ought to be considered as building-rent. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Neither would such a tax fall altogether upon the ground-rent; but it would divide itself in such a manner as to fall, partly upon the inhabitants of the house, and partly upon the owner of the ground. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The more the inhabitant was obliged to pay for the tax, the less he would incline to pay for the ground; so that the final payment of the tax would fall altogether upon the owner of the ground-rent. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Whatever part of the whole rent of a house is over and above what is sufficient for affording this reasonable profit, naturally goes to the ground-rent; and where the owner of the ground and the owner of the building are two different persons, is, in most cases, completely paid to the former. ❋ Unknown (1909)
