Excerpt from The Forest-Tax Problem and Its Solution SummarizedThe desirability of reducing the burden of taxation through the elimination of waste and the promotion of efficiency is clear. Beyond that the question is, what scale of government activity can the community afford? There must be provision for a strong, construo tive, aggressive public service covering activities that are justified by the public interest. If the consequent tax burden is heavy, forest owners, like all other classes, must accept heavy taxation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.