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Excerpt from Concerning the Tax Amendment to the Constitution But in this report the special committee makes a strong point against a more or less common disposition to confuse equality with uniformity. Because the end aimed at is equality it does not necessarily follow that the means should be an exactly identical rate of tax on different kinds of wealth; since all kinds of wealth are not necessarily conditioned precisely alike, but different kinds of wealth are subjected to different conditions as to price, valuation, variation in value, income-bearing character, market able character and so on. A summary of a portion of this report, bearing on the differences between equality and uniformity, states that in all governmental affairs equality should be the controlling principle, and in none is it more necessary than in the matter of taxation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.