Re: von Mises Institute on Henry George

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:24:32 GMT

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:52:08 GMT, Les Cargill
<lcargill@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>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.
>
>Isn't a certain skepticism of George's rather utopia
>"usfruct" in order, though?

George was fond of making utopian claims that LVT would be a panacea,
which it certainly would not, but that was pretty standard rhetorical
form at the time.

>I think we've all seen some
>incredulity here from us who have learned about it. I
>can't think of another thinker, other than certain
>Marxists, who don't consider absolute ownership of
>property to be a very core value. It is all but the
>very definition of why there is government.

Yeah. So, who should pay for government....?

-- Roy L

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