Excerpt from Betterment, Worsement and Recoupment: With a Note on Betterment in America Of form or procedure. The question is, whether a change in the law of local taxation should not be preceded by some enunciation by the Legislature of the general principles on which it shall be based. In the following pages I have avoided entering into this quarrel, which has been made one of party politics. As Lord Onslow pointed out, in his eloquent and states manlike speech in the House of Lords, a certain party in the House of Commons and the London County Council have deliberately selected Betterment as a good fighting ques tion, on which to have it out with the House of Lords. This is not exactly the frame of mind or the atmosphere in which to discuss a complicated problem of local taxation. The taxation temperature should be low, and I have done my best to keep it so. 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.