If only someone could have foreseen 140 yrs ago, looking at our great coastal cities like SF and NYC, this correlation between high land prices caused by economic progress and burgeoning of #poverty.
He could have written a book called #ProgressAndPoverty. His name could have been #HenryGeorge.
#urbanism #LVT #LandValueTaxSolvesThis #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #LandValueTax #SingleTax #Georgism #housing #homelessness #USpol
The primary argument for #LandValueTax as the #SingleTax is not that it is demonstrably the most effective and efficient means of #taxation, it's the moral argument that #LVT is the only tax which comports with the requirements of #morality based on the #NaturalRights theory of #Equality, #Liberty, and #Justice for All.
Acceptance of this is unnecessary, because even if you don't believe in #libertarian #philosophy, you still believe in the authority of government to tax anything it wishes.
That is why #LandValueTaxation is the only legitimate form of #taxation, and why #LVT should be the #SingleTax.
The value of #land is not created by individual human #labor, yet it accrues to the individual as a by-product of the fact that a civil #society requires division of #Nature into parcels, and it is the role of the state to act as #trustee of the people to ensure the rights of the exclusive #occupant, #tenant, or "#owner".
Protected land tenancy is a #monopoly granted by government.
It's another politicians tinkering aimlessly (and destructively) day!
It's so frustrating being a #Georgist #SingleTax advocate on a budget day. You just want to scream "stupid people" at all o them! #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #valueourplanet #makepovertyhistory
"As soon as land becomes private property, the landlord demands a share of almost all the produce." - Adam Smith
"Rent is the secret tax the wealthy charge the poor." - Joseph E. Stiglitz
"Solving the land question means the solving of all social questions." - Leo Tolstoy
The #singletax of #henrygeorge will liberate us! Don't tax more, Rachel! Tax smarter, Keir! @libdems.org.uk
#abolishtaxes on production, work and trade entirely. #sharetherents of land, locations and monopolies.
#superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory #valueourplanet #undercutthetariffs
The one thing I'd like people to realize about #LandValueTax as the #SingleTax is that while #LVT may not actually solve every single problem with human society, because it acts at the roots of society, rather than at the crown, it not only fixes the most fundamental injustices, there is no problem in society that LVT makes worse.
There is nothing to lose and everything to gain, so why wouldn't you be an advocate for it, unless you are an owner of monopoly power?
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐
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