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Hey Slaves, You Cannot Live on Your Own Land and Stay Off Our Control Grid!

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« on: December 21, 2010, 03:26:40 pm »

I'd point sanity limits on any individual's right to wealth.

There's already a built-in natural limit: the individual's ability to actually produce -- rather than appropriate -- wealth.

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NO - that does not make me a communist, it simply means that I don't think anyone should be a Billionaire or own 100,000's of acres of land.

As long as the Single Tax remains unimplemented, it's inevitable that a privileged few will end up owning hundreds of thousands -- and in some cases millions -- of acres of land.

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I've not got anything against people getting lucky, but there must be some limits ? - Limits that would prevent a mega-elite of super rich people.

Yes, but if we are to avoid a cure that's even worse than the disease, then we must be certain that those limits are not arbitrary, but rooted in basic principles of justice.

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A system which means that NoBody gets to own their own land is not satisfactory.

Here's the key question: is the right of access to the earth on which all must live yet which none produced an equal right held by everyone, or an unequal right held only by those who happen to have land titles?

If your position is that the right to land itself is an equal right, then I ask that you please understand the futility of attempting to secure that right in any way that does not involve securing -- via taxation -- the equal right to the economic rent of land.

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"This imperfect policy of non-intervention, or laissez-faire, led straight to a most hideous and dreadful economic exploitation; starvation wages, slum dwelling, killing hours, pauperism, coffin-ships, child-labour -- nothing like it had ever been seen in modern times....People began to say, perhaps naturally, if this is what State absentation comes to, let us have some State intervention.

"But the State had intervened; that was the whole trouble. The State had established one monopoly, -- the landlord's monopoly of economic rent, -- thereby shutting off great hordes of people from free access to the only source of human subsistence, and driving them into the factories to work for whatever Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bottles chose to give them. The land of England, while by no means nearly all actually occupied, was all legally occupied; and this State-created monopoly enabled landlords to satisfy their needs and desires with little exertion or none, but it also removed the land from competition with industry in the labour market, thus creating a huge, constant and exigent labour-surplus." [Emphasis original]

-- Albert Jay Nock, Free Speech and Plain Language, pp. 320-1



“We do not propose to assert equal rights to land by keeping land common, letting any one use any part of it at any time. We do not propose the task, impossible in the present day of society, of dividing land in equal shares; still less the yet more impossible task of keeping it so divided.

"We propose—leaving land in the private possession of individuals, with full liberty on their part to give, sell or bequeath it--simply to levy on it for public uses a tax that shall equal the annual value of the land itself, irrespective of the use made of it or the improvements on it....We would accompany this tax on land values with the repeal of all taxes now levied on the products and processes of industry--which taxes, since they take from the earnings of labor, we hold to be infringements of the right of property.”


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If it's any consolation, though, both "liberals" and "conservatives" -- and everyone in between -- seem equally opposed (albeit for different reasons) to the Georgist "Middle Way" approach to economic reform.

Consequently, publicly-created land values will continue to remain privatized, and the paradox of poverty amid plenty will continue to plague humankind.

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