Re: von Mises Institute on Henry George

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:58:32 GMT

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:12:43 GMT, Socialism is a Mental Disease
<root@localhost.> wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:48:09 -0400, "RueTheDay" <ruetheday@outgun.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>"Socialism is a Mental Disease" <root@localhost.> wrote in message
>>news:t03ci0p21hu3fdpsouno935t8i78pfqvmi@4ax.com...
>>> On 20 Aug 2004 06:27:13 -0700, ruetheday@outgun.com (Rue The Day)
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1592&id=71
>>> >
>>> >They praise him endlessly for his writings on free trade and
>>> >protectionism, but then end the paper with a couple of sentences about
>>> >how he was wrong on the land issue "because Rothbard said so".
>>> >Classic.
>>>
>>> It's called references. Sometimes people used them:
>>>
>>> http://www.mises.org/rothbard/georgism.pdf
>>
>>Right. However, references are not a substitute for an argument.
>
>Well, the argument was in the reference. What the heck, do you want
>all possible arguments about everythng to be in a single article?

I want mises.org to stop pretending Rothbard's paper was anything but
idiotic and dishonest.

>>Furthermore, the Rothbard piece was laughable. He actually makes the claim
>>that a land value tax will drive rents to zero and thus the land value tax
>>will collect zero revenue.
>
>If the tax rate is 100%, he's right, is he not?

No, he isn't. And you have just proved yourself as economically
illiterate as Rothbard and mises.org.

>Isn't that what
>Georgists want?

No. It's what dishonest and economically illiterate anti-Georgists
want to claim Georgists want.

-- Roy L

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