It is the inherent injustice of capitalism that provides the seed from which socialism grows. Socialism always grows out of capitalism. Georgism...
I am not a socialist but rather a georgist. That being said, I favored Bernie Sanders over the other choices. In my opinion, to the degree that...
So you believe land should be privately owned? Why? ---------- "The fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to no one." –...
The way it works is that government taxes the general population (income and sales taxes) in order to provide services and infrastructure (such as...
Even if everyone owned the small plot of land that they lived on, this would not eliminate their dependency upon the natural resource not...
Doesn't answer the question of why some people are forced to pay other people for what nature provided for free. Excluding others from what...
Just because something has been done a certain way for thousands of years doesn't mean that it is a good way to do them chattel slavery was also...
No. However, if the landless engage in production they must pay income and consumption taxes so that government can spend the resulting revenue on...
Nope. The geoist land value tax system will allow more people to own land for two reasons 1) the land value tax punishes people who currently own...
The government is a necessary evil because without government the people spend more labor/time fighting over natural resources than they do...
Many years ago I watched a documentary hosted by John Stossel (or at least he was on the documentary) where a European country required each...
So you are upset that I want to introduce competition to the land market? That is, after all, what I am advocating for. Are you afraid of...
I have also written many times, over many years, that I advocate for owner assessment as a solution to disputes against government employed...
If you tax new cars that just creates more demand for used cars and the prices of used cars skyrockets. In other words, the tax on new cars is...
Wrong. Property would trade in the open market just as it does now, only at lower prices because the land value would be stripped out of real...
First of all, there is not a single title to land, the whole world over, which can be traced through consensual trade to the first user of the...
Before the land can be homesteaded it must be stolen – by force – from those who were otherwise at liberty to use it. “AFTER...
Sorry, I didn't explain that quite the way I wanted. What I meant to say is that you get to have input to what your taxes will be, but so does...
You have no idea what you are talking about. None of your accusations about the system I propose are true. The system I am advocating is very...
When it comes to buying land usage rights you should be paying the community for that privilege, not some previous landowner who provides nothing....
This is an economics forum not a forum for what is best for you or I. Economics doesn't care about the two of us, it only cares about maximizing...
Land value taxation brings competition to the land market. It is up to the market to decide the best use of land, whatever that use might be. You...
That is correct. Landownership is an arrangement whereby (b) and (c) are forced to protect (a) from (d). That is an arrangement that only...
I want to tax the land because nature, community and government provide that value, so taxing land values cannot harm producers. Land taxes help...
I don't hate farmers, I want to stop taxing them for their effort. Farming and landowning are not the same thing. Many farmers have to forfeit...
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