266 Political Economy. X also on the existing system. C. S. I. Final Prise, 1871. ii. 12. 1485. Discuss the economic expediency of abolish ing the Income-tax in the United Kingdom. What would be the probable economic effects of substituting an Income-tax for a number of the present indirect taxes in France? Dublin Prise, 1880. vii. 8. 1486. Discuss the expediency of a graduated Income-tax. Cambridge, B.A., 1878. viii. 9. 1487. What are the arguments for and against ' I'impdt progressif,' i.e. a tax on income increasing in a ratio exceeding that of the income taxed ? Lond. Univ. Cal., 1870. viii. 8. 1488. Would it be advisable or practicable to make the tax on income vary with the amount of income ? or to levy it on expenditure rather than on income ? Owens Col., Shuttleworth Scholarship, 1877-78. iii. 4. 1489. State the reasons for and against taxing a terminable equally with a permanent income. Owens College Prise, 1876-77. x. 10. 1490. State the chief arguments for and against a deduction of the same percentage from permanent and precarious incomes for the Income-tax. C. S. I. Final, 1873. xii. 12. 1491. Should terminable and perpetual incomes be taxed on the same basis? Queen!s Univ., M.A., 1875. ix. 9. 1492. State the chief arguments for and against a