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If so, what would that mean for the thousands of permanent-seat-licenses holders, whose bequeathable asset won’t mean much in Montreal or Mexico City, should either be the Panthers’ next home?

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2017

He suggests that incomes should be allowed up to £8,000, and bequeathable property up to £200,000.

From A Critical Examination of Socialism by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

Why does he not take his bill and write down quickly £200 of income instead of £8,000, and limit bequeathable property to £2,000 instead of £200,000?

From A Critical Examination of Socialism by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

Why must the permissible amounts of income and of bequeathable property be of proportions such as those which he contemplates?

From A Critical Examination of Socialism by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)