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Men who continue hoarding great sums all their lives, the proper use
of which for public ends would work good to the community, should be made
to feel that the community, in the form of the state, cannot thus be
deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death the state
marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life.
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1. The author feels that
A. taxing estates is the state's way of punishing unworthy men
B. money should be spent for the public good
C. taxes are necessary because men hoard money
D. without taxes men will not spend money for the good of the community
E. millionaires are selfish
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B
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B
(B) The author believes that money should be used for the good of the community.
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B
Indeed, it is difficult to set bounds to the share of a rich man's
estate which should go at his death to the public through the agency
of the state, and by all means such taxes should be graduated, beginning at
nothing upon moderate sums to dependents, and increasing rapidly as the
amounts swell. . . .
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1. The author is recommending that
A. the state should inherit the bulk of a man's property when he dies
B. to avoid taxes, people should leave a will
C. to avoid taxes, people should dispose of their property before they die
D. wealthy people should leave their money to the state, not to individuals
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C
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C
(A) The state should inherit most of a man's estate.
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C
This policy would work powerfully to induce the rich man to attend to
the administration of wealth during his life, which is the end that society
should always have in view, as being by far the most fruitful for the
people.
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1. The author feels that death duties would
A. induce men to avoid material wealth
B. induce men to have wills
C. induce men to spend money freely
D. induce men to use money for public purposes
E. take away the motivation to accumulate money
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D
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D
(D) The author feels that this measure would encourage men to spend their
wealth for the good of the community.
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D
Nor need it be feared that this policy would sap the root of
enterprise and render men less anxious to accumulate, for, to the class
whose ambition it is to leave great fortunes and be talked about after
their death, it will attract even more attention, and, indeed, be a
somewhat nobler ambition to have enormous sums paid over to the state from
their fortunes.
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1. In this passage the author states that
A. taxes sap the root of enterprise
B. taxes make men less anxious to accumulate wealth
C. death duties will appeal to ambitious men
D. death duties will make it impossible for men to leave great fortunes
E. death duties are a good way for the state to accumulate money
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E
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E
(C) He argues that death duties will appeal to men with great ambitions.
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E
There remains, then, only one mode of using great fortunes; but in
this we have the true antidote for the temporary unequal distribution of
wealth, the reconciliation of the rich and the poor - a reign of harmony -
another ideal, differing, indeed, from that of the Communist in requiring
only the further evolution of existing conditions, not the total overthrow
of our civilization.
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1. The "true antidote" is
A. Communism
B. the overthrow of our civilization
C. the reign of harmony
D. the reconciliation of the rich and the poor
E. using wealth for the public good
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F
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F
(E) The solution proposed by the author is to use wealth for the public good.
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Under its sway we shall have an ideal state, in which the surplus
wealth of the few will become, in the best sense, the property of the many,
because administered for the common good; and this wealth, passing through
the hands of the few, can be made a much more potent force for the
elevation of our race than if it had been distributed in small sums to the
people themselves.
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1. When the author writes, "Surplus wealth . . . will become . . . the
property of the many," he is saying
A. Money should be distributed equally among all the people of the
community.
B. The state will spend the money acquired by death duties for public
purposes.
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G
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G
(B) The author believes the state should use this money for the public good.
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