Limited Property: Property Taxes.
Part of the "Critiques of Libertarianism" site.
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/libindex.html
Last updated 10/25/07.
Most libertarians are opposed to property taxes. The Georgists have
an answer that libertarians are unable to rebut.
Links
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The Party Without Principle?
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Mike O'Mara points out that the Libertarian Party presumes
"just acquisition" has occurred, in defiance of history and philosophy.
Georgism is proposed as a solution.
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Are you a Real Libertarian, or a ROYAL Libertarian?
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Geolibertarians (a splinter group) have adopted Georgist single tax
philosophy, and roundly lambaste other libertarians and Objectivists,
ridiculing their ideas of land as private property.
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A Landlord is Really a Type of Tax Collector
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Mike O'Mara's short, simple illustration of similarities.
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The Henry George School Gopher Site
Henry George Foundation of America
Henry George Institute
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Henry George was a 19th century economist who advocated a single tax
on land. A number of documents based on his ideas.
His major work was
Progress and Poverty.
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Seven Nobel Prize Winners Endorse Land Value Taxation
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Libertarians who like quoting their own Nobel Prize winners might find
it hard to reconcile these brief economic statements with their
ideology.
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A Geolibertarian FAQ
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Todd Altman's rebuts common libertarian arguments against land value
taxes, including some really pathetic ones by Murray Rothbard.
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Archimedes
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Mark Twain's sarcastic examination of private land ownership.
Print References
The links here are to
Amazon.com, through their associates program, primarily because of the
review information. Books without links are generally out of print,
and can often be easily found at
AddAll Used and Out Of Print Search.
Good sites for bargain shopping for sometimes expensive new books are
Online Bookstore Price Comparison
and
AddAll Book Search and Price Comparison.
Both of those list applicable coupons. Another is
BookFinder.com.
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Stephen Holmes, Cass Sunstein
"The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes"
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W. W. Norton 1999. Legally enforceable rights cost money, a fact ignored
by libertarian ideologues.
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Harold Kyriazi
"Libertarian Party at Sea on Land"
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Robert Schalkenbach Foundation 2000. A libertarian criticizes the
Libertarian Party positions regarding ownership of natural resources for
inconsistency with its own principles.
Copyright 2007 by Mike Huben ( mhuben@world.std.com ).
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