Re: Income from a tax on land.

From: Mark Monson (m_monson_at_ztech.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:56:06 -0500

"Socialism is a Mental Disease" <root@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:21:04 -0500, "Mark Monson" <m_monson@ztech.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >"Socialism is a Mental Disease" <root@localhost.> wrote in message
> >news:vtu0s0pn6sc9e46fe1gdql0a18i3ias7nb@4ax.com...
> >> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:05:09 GMT, "sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Those who advocate the right of private owners to Ricardian land rents,
> >> >without returning comparable value to the community, are in effect advocates
> >> >of aristocracy. See "Are you a Real Libertarian, or a Royal Libertarian?"
> >> >http://geolib.pair.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html
> >> >
> >>
> >> The assumption here is that, because the individual did not create the
> >> land, the individual is not entitled to own it. The problem is that
> >> the community did not create the land either. As such, it makes no
> >> sense for the community to be compensated. At the end of the day,
> >> Georgists fail to realize that there is no strong philosophical
> >> argument to support either type of ownership (public or private) of
> >> land.
> >
> >The ethical justification for LVT is that it indirectly secures the right of
equal
> >land use. Philosophically speaking, LVT depends not on the idea of collective
land
> >ownership but on the idea of no land ownership. This means that each of us has
the
> >right to use the entire planet as we see fit - bounded by a similar right enjoyed
by
> >all others. LVT in effect secures this equal right of land use for every member
of
> >the community without sacrificing economically beneficial land uses that require
> >permanent structures.
> >
>
> The problem arises when two people want to use the same plot. If both
> have the same right to use it, from a philosophical perspective LVT
> solves nothing.

Say you and I own a boat together. Sometimes we both go out on the boat. No
conflict there. Sometimes we rent the boat to others and split the rent. No
conflict there. Sometimes one of us takes out the boat. No conflict there as long
as the other doesn't want the boat that day. Conflict arises only when we both want
to take the boat out on the same day. The solution is we bid against each other for
the daily rental and then split the rent.

MM

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