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TRUSTS OF HOLDEEN

486 Pa. 1 (1979)

403 A.2d 978

Trusts of Jonathan HOLDEEN, Settlor. Appeal of Janet ADAMS and Randal Holden. Appeal of COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cuthbert H. Latta, Philadelphia, for appellants.

Daniel B. Michie, Jr., Fell, Spalding, Goff & Rubin, Philadelphia, for appellee Unitarian Universalist Ass'n.

John A. Solis-Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, for Commonwealth.

Cuthbert H. Latta, Philadelphia, for appellees Janet Adams, et al.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, MANDERINO and LARSEN, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

Jonathan Holdeen believed a system of "cumulative endowments" for government should replace taxation. Under Holdeen's system, governments would "create or receive funds which shall be invested in productive investments and the income of which fund shall be wholly or partly accumulated until the amount of such funds shall be large enough so that the income thereof will pay all governmental expenses."

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