Re: novel argument against taxing rents

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:48:56 -0400, "tonyp" <tonyp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

But seriously: what does it mean for a government to be the "administrator"
but not the "owner" of some land which no private individual owns?

Do you know what a "trust" is? Government decides who will possess
and use the land, and on what terms. It always does. The only
question is, for whose benefit will it do so: all the people, or a
small, wealthy, idle, privileged minority?

If an
earthquake results in a one-acre island rising up in Lake Michigan a
half-mile off Chicago, who owns it?

No one, of course.

Who _can_ own it? Who do we bill the LVT to?

The user, same as any other land.

-- Roy L
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