Re: Winston Churchill: Land Price as a Cause of Poverty

From: polar bear (bear_at_pole.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:12:32 -0800

In article
<9q1Rd.229397$w62.125997@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, König
Prüß, GfbAEV <saurkraut@weinerschnitzle.com> wrote:

> "Quirk" wrote:
>
> >LAND PRICE AS A CAUSE OF POVERTY
> >
> >Winston Churchill's Speech in the House of Commons, 4 May 1909,
> > in response to Mr AJ Balfour, Leader of the Opposition
> >
> >The immemorial custom of nearly every modern State, the mature
> >conclusions of many of the greatest thinkers, have placed the tenure,
> >transfer, and obligations of land in a wholly different category from
> >other classes of property. The mere obvious physical distinction
> >between land, which is a vital necessity of every human being and which
> >at the same time is strictly limited in extent, and other property is
> >in itself sufficient to justify a clear differentiation in its
> >treatment, and in the view taken by the State of the conditions which
> >should govern the tenure of land from that which should regulate
> >traffic in other forms of property.
>
> Oh, yeah! Land tenure. Land tenure is a big deal in Guatemala,
> where I think a dozen families own 80% of the land.
>
> There are land tenure projects and a land tenure institute.
>
> So, what are the big differences between Venture Communism
> and Economic Democracy?
> http://www.ied.info/
> http://www.ied.info/books/ed/

Land redistribution worked really well in Zimbabwe.

pb

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