Re: Income from a tax on land.

jmhall_at_apex.home.net
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: 29 Dec 2004 17:24:58 -0500

royls@telus.net writes:

> On 26 Dec 2004 14:25:13 -0500, jmhall@apex.home.net wrote:
>
> >On what grounds and in what settings is the georgist
> >proposition superior in the claim one person or some group
> >being able to dispossess another of their use of the
> >specific piese of land?
>
> Wherever more than one person wants to use it.
>
> >Your first staement "equal right to" does not constitute
> >a superior or a prior right to (prior as in prior to
> >to other person) use the land.
>
> But nevertheless an _equal_ right.

But if one is already using it then the equal
right is not a pre-emptive right that force the
other to stop and yield to one wanting to use
that land also.

This is where I have a big problem with the attempts
to create some moral superiority with the LVT approach.
That approach means that anyone willing to force up the
value of the land--that is anyone with more money
or willing to us land for commercial uses rather
than personal uses--can take wha they want.

This is no different, morally, from a might makes
right claim.

jmh

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