Re: Is Intelligence/Skilled Labor a Natural Resource? (or: An LVT for Brains)

"Dan in Philly" <djr8@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "The Trucker" <mikcob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message ...
>
>>> we'll never see a tax on intelligence rents, just like we'll never see a
>>> serious tax on land rents.
>
>> But there is no government force needed to protect
>> the asset from theft or unauthorixed use by someone
>> else. Therefore the income from this asset is **NOT**
>> rent.
>
> It's true that a group of thugs can't commandeer your brain like they can a
> piece of land. But, at least in the US, property rights to land are
> well-respected and require little policing effort (capital is a different
> matter: vandalism, theft, etc). Also, intellectual property is the result of
> intelligence, and it does require policing effort (to protect patents, etc).
> It seems likely that government expenditures related to intelligence are
> greater than that related to land.
>



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