The impending crisis : $b conditions resulting from the concentration of wealth in the United StatesBouroff, Basil A.
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The impending crisis : $b conditions resulting from the concentration of wealth in the United States
Bouroff, Basil A.
Trusts, Industrial; United States -- Economic conditions; Wealth
1. He must pay from it for a shelter to one or another property owner,
when this owner has a rentable house, which house serves as a source of
income and profit to the owner. So that the tenant of his house becomes
a permanent resource for the owner’s well-being, because he cannot avoid
paying rent to the one or the other.
2. He must pay for his clothes to another property owner or an owner of
wealth, who gets income and profit from selling the [SN: EXPENSES FOR
CLOTHES, ETC.] goods, and who gets incomes and profits for making and
producing the goods. And as a consumer, the propertyless man is relied
upon as a source of income by these owners of wealth, and hence, he is a
resource of their own well-being. He must also pay for laundry to
another owner of wealth and must be a real source of income and profit
for him, because he too is a propertied man and has many resources for
life.
3. He must pay for his board, whether in a boarding house or in a
restaurant, it makes some difference; but by boarding in either [SN:
EXPENSES FOR NOURISHMENT.] one or the other, he must be a source of
income and profit to servants and waiters every day, and to a crowd of
owners of wealth who are ever ready to draw all from him they can. But
if he boards in the house he rents, and if his wife performs the
domestic duties in his case, then the expense of his life is reduced
through this channel in favor of the wife. Nevertheless, he must
continue to be a source of income in favor of the butcher, the baker and
grocer, and some other propertied men who derive their profits from him
at a certain per cent in the way of his nourishment.
4. The propertyless man is another source of expense in favor of the
support of the general government of the nation, a state government, a
county government, and perhaps a municipal one. And he [SN: EXPENSES FOR
GOVERNMENT, ETC.] pays the taxes in the prices of the goods and clothing
he wears; in the prices of food and the drinks he consumes,—these
expenses make him a sure source of income to many other owners of
wealth, and so on. And to this channel of drain must be added his
expenses for education, for different asylums, for churches and other
institutions; expenses for the books and newspapers he reads; expenses
for the carfare, etc., he cannot avoid; expenses for the physicians he
is cured by, and the drugs his strength is invigorated with, and so on.
Thus every one of these propertied persons obtains his own percentage of
income from the resourceless man. And certainly there are many other
channels of expense for him in the society he comes into contact with.
It is really impossible to number here even the unavoidable expenses of
the propertyless man.
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