Re: query regarding Georgist assertion

On 5 Apr 2007 16:17:12 -0700, w_b_ryan@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

The link you supplied does not support the assertion
that "high" taxes on land are associated with
prosperity. Eighteen countries are listed, all
European, with the exception of the United States,
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Japan. The
countries are ranked from the highest to the lowest
in terms of "property tax as a percentage of total tax
collected by the country." The United States is
ranked the highest at 11.9 percent. Austria is
ranked the lowest at 1.3 percent. That is to say,
more than ninety percent of taxes collected in those
very wealthy industrialized countries come from
something other than property tax. Inasmuch as
property tax is inclusive of tax on improvements
and personal property, the percentage of total taxes
collected on the value of land alone would be even
lower.

Of course they are not Single Tax countries. The point is to compare
the ones near the top of the list with the ones near the bottom. The
ones near the top -- USA, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, Australia --
have generally been more prosperous than those near the bottom. The
UK is less prosperous despite its high property tax revenue fraction
becuase its property tax system is very strongly geared to taxing
improvements at a higher rate than land.

I notice you ignored all the other evidence I provided of pre-modern
examples and the newly prosperous resource-rent countries. That is
normal and expected.

But it's really very simple, stupid: would Kuwait, Brunei, etc. be
wealthy countries today if they were giving all the economic rent of
their resources away to the oil companies for doing nothing, and
taxing production to raise revenue?

You have of course chosen to be permanently incapable of answering
that question honestly, or even of knowing the answer, because it
proves your beliefs are false.

-- Roy L
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