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Show A Single-Tax Town. On the coast of Vancouver island, In British Columbia, the flourishing town of Nanaimo, with its 6,000 inhabitants, inhabi-tants, has no tax for municipal purposes pur-poses save one on land values, levied alike on occupied and unoccupied land, according to the orthodox interpretation inter-pretation of the single tax theory. The town is a miners' town, where the doctrine of "three acres and a cow" Is almost universally realized, as well as that of "every man his own house owner." For this result the easy terms of the London syndicate which owns the coal and land in the neighborhood neigh-borhood are largely responsible. |