All this argument concerning the unearnedincrement may be carried over, with scarcely a change of phrase, to the case of "capital goods.
The process of accumulation, therefore, is evidently a cumulative one; and, also evidently, the increase added to capital is an unearned increment drawn from the unpaid surplus product of labor.
The unearned increment, it is held, is produced by the growth of the community in numbers and in the industrial arts.
The argument of the single-tax advocates and other economists as to the "unearned increment" is sufficiently familiar, but its ulterior implications have not commonly been recognised.
Insidiously this getting of unearned money promotes laziness, and the desire to acquire more money without work.
There must be abolition or sharp limitation of unearned incomes i.
It would, indeed, be dangerous to attempt to take it all, on account of the extreme difficulty of drawing the line between earned and unearned increments; even the most painstaking and impartial decisions would be sometimes unjust.
It must involve a restriction of the right to unearned incomes.
The term is used loosely by some to mean merely the taking or taxing by the State, as we have already suggested, of all future unearned increments of land value, so far as they can be computed.
The unearned increment would be so widely distributed that it would be needless, for purposes of equalizing distribution, to bother with it, though it might still be appropriated by the State as a means of increasing its revenue.
On the whole, there seems little objection to the appropriation by the State henceforth of the unearned increments of land value.
You can follow the same general principle of distinguishing between earned and unearned increment through the Government's treatment of the income-tax.
In the first speculation the unearned increment derived from land arises from a wholly sterile process, from the mere withholding of a commodity which is needed by the community.
There is a pretty steady determination, which I am convinced will become effective in the present Parliament, to intercept all future unearned increment which may arise from the increase in the speculative value of the land.
Nothing is more amusing than to watch the efforts of our monopolist opponents to prove that other forms of property and increment are exactly the same and are similar in all respects to the unearned increment in land.
If you choose to keep it idle in the expectation of still further unearned increment, then at least you shall be taxed at the true selling value in the meanwhile.
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.
The railway, he explained, is built to open up a new district; and the farmers and landowners in that district are endowed with unearned increment in consequence of the building of the railway.
On the face of the facts inherited wealth stands on a different footing from acquired wealth, and Liberal policy is on the right lines in beginning the discrimination of earned from unearned income.
To falsely tempt a prisoner with freedom is not a fair shake, even though he knows it to be unearned freedom, and that, being nearly unequipped, he cannot hope to meet the exactions of the free-life working day.
His specialty is to roll a dollar and have it lap up unearned increment that would have shamed Shakespeare's capital usurer, had he been ten times the immovable counterfeit Bassanio proclaimed him.
This, if for no other reason than that singular scramble for spoils is wholly to the criminal's liking; it warps judgments, and emboldens lawbreakers to press on the lamer side for favors at once unearned and non-reformative.
But, you may rightly say, this will not eliminate the unearned incomes.
Finally, it will be possible to adopt measures for eliminating the unearned incomes entirely by means of taxation, such as the progressive income tax, property and inheritance taxes.
Enriched byunearned increment"--who wishes such an epitaph?
The strikers who offer as an argument the burning of a mine or wrecking of a mill, and the directors who manipulate corporation accounts to pay unearned dividends, are both undermining the right of property.
Harry called it pa's "unearned increment" and seemed to think it was an outrage.
It would be just like Harry to talk about "unearned increment" and rope me in to pay part.
Here was the heir to unearned and untold increments.
In the course of the discussion one of the speakers--a blacksmith named Tompkins--arraigned all monarchs and all lords in the earth for their cold selfishness in retaining their unearned dignities.
When the party turned the corner of Front Street and were safely out of sight of Judge Straight's office, the capitalist entered the grocery store and invested his unearned increment in gingerbread.
Visions of Mars Geo'ge disappointed, of a dollar unearned and unspent, flitted through the narrow brain which some one, with the irony of ignorance or of knowledge, had mocked with the name of a great philosopher.
The frequent and unpredictable changes have been a great evil, and have again and again brought unmerited losses to the many in business and still greater and unearned gains to a favored few.
It brings unearned prizes to some and to others unmerited losses.
Many of the latter type are persons overburdened either with unearned inherited wealth or with an undigested education.
Next, if the State should retain this, ought there to be periodical revisions of the rent, so as to reserve the unearned increment for the public?
As this tenure virtually hands over theunearned increment to the lessee, it is regarded by the advanced land reformers with mixed feelings.
Broadly there are two types of income--earned income and unearned income.
The relation between earned and unearned income is not confined to one generation.
Wealth ownership, the exercise of power, living in luxury on unearned income, add to overhead costs, but are accepted as respectable in civilized communities.
The city gathers, guards and eventually consumes the eggs or converts them into capital forms and lives in part on this unearned income.
They perish because of the division of the nucleus and its associates and dependencies between those who work for a living, those who have an unearned income and those parasites who scrounge for a living.
Private property, and its derivative, unearned or property income, has enabled the ruling oligarchies of civilized communities to receive the first fruits of every enterprise.
The payment of unearned income to property holders and the creation of monopolies enables this class to live on rent, interest and profit in proportion to their ownership.
Unearned income is something for nothing--an income derived from some monopoly, privilege, sinecure or form of property ownership.
Income from property ownership, by contrast, is unearned income.
Investing their stored wealth in land or productive enterprises the "ants" added unearned income to their normal earnings from productive labor.
This personal parasitism of property owners is aggravated by provisions of property law under which the owners of property can give, sell or bequeath these sources of unearned income to family members, friends, associates.
In the general scramble for "unearned increments," property holders who are exempt from the payment of taxes are given an overwhelming advantage.
Under usury, both lender and borrower are in the attitude of expectants of unearned gain.
It is clearly implied that unearned increase, reaping and gathering without sowing, could be gained through the exchangers.
Seek nothing for thyself or thine own kin That robs another of one hope or joy, Let no man toil in poverty and pain To give thee unearned luxury and ease.
But that the pains more than balanced the joys, and that the indulgence in unearned deceptions destroyed sooner or later all capacity for enjoyment, man learned more slowly.
Another source of Pessimism is the reaction from unearned pleasures and from spurious joys.
In his note-book that night he wrote: At a quarter past 9 this evening she that was the life of my life passed to the relief & the peace of death after as months of unjust & unearned suffering.
I should blush to my heels to fill up with this unearned gratitude again, pouring out of the thankful hearts of those poor swindled people who do not suspect you, but honestly believe I gave that money.
The unearned profits had been shared by the promoters and the dishonest officials, and some of it had gone into the Republican campaign fund.
The debtor carried a growing burden while the creditor harvested an unearned increase.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unearned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: independent; outrageous; preposterous; undeserved; undue; unmerited; unwarranted; unworthy
