Excerpt from Report of the Commission on Taxation to the Governor, 1916 The citizens of Indiana have borne its grievous injustice partly because they have been deceived by the ostensible fair ness of the theory which purports to apportion the burdens of taxation in proportion to the economic status of taxpayers, partly because they have been beguiled by the delusive hope that its practical defects would eventually be remedied by improving administrative methods, and partly because thay have been too complacent to make the effort necessary to work out a better system 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.