Re: Henry George's Single Tax

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:12:29 GMT

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:09:05 -0500, TF <Tim_fb@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Roy,
>
>Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post. Very much appreciated.

You're welcome.

>One of the reasons for my frustration was, I think HG's book is the
>all-time best selling book on economics. And that somehow implied a
>simple idea to me.

It was more that he was very easy to read, for an economist.

>But this is not very simple IMHO, it might get real
>complicated.

Not necessarily complicated so much as subtle. IMHO few people are
intelligent enough to understand it accurately.

>My guess is some people who read his book and advocated
>his idea in 19th century didn't understand all the ramifications of
>this single tax.

I agree. Some soi disant Georgists have been embarrassingly wrong
about what George was saying.

>Maybe it was just "let the landowners pay all the
>tax" to them. But I think it is more involved than that.

Right on the money.

-- Roy L