Re: Income from a tax on land.

From: Dale Eastman (dalereastman_at_sprintmail.com)
Date: 01/15/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 06:31:27 GMT

Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:

> 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.

I've just now started to read this thread in earnest.

A question here. Would the argument change if, instead of land as the
item under discussion, it was the very air we breath? 

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