Re: Income from a tax on land.

From: Socialism is a Mental Disease (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 12/25/04


Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:01:25 GMT

On 24 Dec 2004 17:15:04 -0800, imouttahere@mac.com wrote:
>
>Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
>> On 24 Dec 2004 04:39:51 -0800, imouttahere@mac.com wrote:
>> >
>> >I marvel at how anyone could be libertarian and not be a
>> >geolibertarian.
>> >
>>
>> I don't see any philosophical justification for LVT based on
>> libertarian principles. I don't see what you marvel at.
>
>I marvel at how you fail to see how the LVT fulfillment of the Lockean
>Proviso completes the moral foundation of the libertarian worldview.
>

Marvel ahead. I see nothing in libertarian philosophy that requires
LVT. At least, I don't see how you can go from the Principle of
Self-ownership to LVT. But feel free to enlighten me.

>
>> "A society that robs an individual of the product of his
>> effort... is... a mob held together by institutionalized
>> gang rule." -- Ayn Rand
>
>This sig is highly ironic in this context. Here's my favorite sig
>quote:
>
>"To prove a legal title to land one must trace it back to the man who
>stole
>it." -- Lloyd George
>
>I have yet to see any argument come close to addressing the cosmic
>truth of this quip.
>

Stole it from whom?

-- 
"A society that robs an individual of the product of his
effort... is... a mob held together by institutionalized
gang rule." -- Ayn Rand


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