This enormous increase in land values has been called the "unearned increment.
Unearned increment" is one of those accidental incidents of life which can hardly be controlled or reckoned with.
Many people feel very sore upon this matter, and wax strong and vehement upon what is known as the "unearned increment" question.
Monopolistic corporations have as good a right, generally speaking, to profit by the "unearned increment" of land as competitive concerns.
And what is true of him is likewise true of the rent receiver, and of the person who profits by the "unearned increment" of land values.
This "unearned increment" is a matter of which we are likely to hear a deal in the immediate future, for since John Mill stated the theory it has been much talked of, and to-day more than ever.
It may therefore be submitted that, with a fairer land tax and the taxation of ground rents, we should secure to the State the proportion of the "unearned increment" to which she is justly entitled.
Sun proposed an ingenious scheme for the government confiscation of unearned increment in an economy which would nevertheless permit private ownership of land.
Sun Yat-sen's opposition to the "unearned increment" shows the influence of the thought of Henry George.
There can be little question that Sun's particular method of solving the problem was influenced by the idea of unearned increment.
But then the place may not become a centre, and your 'unearned increment' will be no more substantial than the evening cloud.
An 'unearned increment,' such as would satisfy the most glowing dreams of the most ardent speculator, has occurred in the capital.
I do not think that the man who makes money by unearned increment in land, is morally a worse man than any one else, who gathers his profit where he finds it, in this hard world under the law and according to common usage.
Therefore, it would be quite just to tax the landlords to the full extent of their "unearned increment.
It is simple plunder, and is known by the technical name of unearned increment.
If by "unearned increment" you mean what I have defined as land value (and I think you do) your statement is the wildest and most astounding I ever heard or read from a sane man making an argument.
The owners are reaping no unearned increment, but they are paying taxes regularly into the public till.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unearned increment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
