Tax Reform Essay Prompts Direct Over Indirect Levy
A Liverpool based prize essay argues for direct taxation to replace indirect duties, tracing historic shifts of burden from landowners to workers. It claims high reform could curb smuggling, boost production, and align taxes with ability to pay, urging retrenchment and equitable sharing of costs.
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Liverpool
Butler
Doggiel
R. Montgomery Martin
R. Peel
Public Health and the Homes of the Poor in London
A critique of urban poverty and sanitation cites two pamphlets on cholera and housing by Thomas Beggs and Charles Cochrane. It urges moral responsibility, links disease to destitution, and maps London’s poorest districts as the site of neglect and potential reform.
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Thomas Beggs
Charles Cochrane
St. Pancras
Cochrane
John Calvin
George Combe
England
Waterloo
Central
Enietho
London
Wapping
Biterchapel
Bethnal-green
Bermondsey
Southwark
Lambeth
Westminster
St. Giles’s
Clerkenwell
Shoreditch