Re: Eminent Domain Abuse

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:01:30 GMT

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:28:30 -0800, "David Schwartz"
<davids@webmaster.com> wrote:

><ruetheday@outgun.com> wrote in message
>news:1110310874.831872.278820@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> >If an individual receives the rent that is Bad. If bunch of
>>>government thugs with guns, chains and dungeons recieve the
>>>rent, that is Good.
>>
>> Well, you can't eliminate the rent, so then the choice is either using
>> it to fund the functions of government or letting individuals
>> appropriate it and funding the functions of government with taxes on
>> income, consumption, trade, etc. I'll choose the former every time.
>
> The irony is amazing. To free people from the yoke of living on and
>working land one does not own, you create a system where nobody can ever be
>free from that yoke.

That's not a "yoke," liar, and lots of free people have done it and
prospered by it, as in Singapore, HK, etc. The yoke part happens when
you live and work on land _someone_else_ owns, and must pay _both_
rent for the land _and_ the taxes that fund the government services
and infrastructure that _create_ the rent. The yoke of oppression,
injustice and slavery is fastened on people's necks when the
productive are made to pay for government _twice_ so that idle
landowners can pocket land rent for doing nothing.

>To correct the injustice of people gaining the benefits
>of others' labor without having to contract for it, you create a system
>fundamentally based upon that very injustice.

Lie. LVT _prevents_ that injustice. Your repeated claim that private
ownership of land allows laborers to recover the additional land value
their efforts create is just false, as you know very well. When has
it ever done so in the whole history of the world, hmmmm?

-- Roy L

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