Re: Smith and Mill: Georgists?

From: The Trucker (mikcob_at_verizon.net)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:57:56 -0700

Robert J. Kolker wrote:

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> royls@telus.net wrote:
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_Who_actually_ends_up_with_less_money_in_his_pocket_as_a_result_of_the_tax_?
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> I am asking out of whose pocket the money for the tax came. It is the
> tennant. In the real world customers pay the entire freight.

Nope. In the real world _producers_ pay the entire freight. There is no
other source from whence any payment can ever flow. In YOUR world (the
current world of theft) the land owner is a middleman, extracting rent
just as government extracts taxes -- by force. Your confusion arises
because of your religious conviction that land owners are necessary.
They simply are not. The land will exist whether there are any owners
or not. People (_producers_) will use the land whether there are owners
or not. Government (in some form) OTOH _IS_ necessary to the division
and specialization of land, and government, in its role as land rights
enforcer, is best financed through a land rent system. A very high
rate of tax on the market value of land is a compromise system that
retains a small amount of rent flowing into the hands of "owners". Such
a compromise seems more acceptable to those who have been brainwashed
by Austrian (primarily Rothbardian) economics. 

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