Re: Income from a tax on land.

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:21:13 GMT

On 29 Dec 2004 17:24:58 -0500, jmhall@apex.home.net wrote:

>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.

Right. The second person has no more right to deny it to the first
than vice versa, and the first may have some fixed improvements in
place, to which he has a right. That's why rent recovery is needed.

>This is where I have a big problem with the attempts
>to create some moral superiority with the LVT approach.

IMO the moral superiority of LVT is clear. What don't you understand
about it?

>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.

No, they have to _pay_everyone_else_for_it_. "Taking" more land than
you could use productively would soon become unaffordable, even for
the very rich.

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

?? So you recognize no moral difference between:

"If you use that, I'll kill you," and

"I'll pay you more to let me use that than you'll pay me to let you
use it."

-- Roy L

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