Comment by tomrod

Comment by tomrod 2 days ago

You're on a lonely island there, and despite the followup edit for a reference to the Mises Institute, your thoughts represents neither mainstream nor, especially recently, what their own Pete Boettke would declare, mainline economics. Thanks for your thoughts, I've reviewed them and found them inaccurate.

Smith, Adam (1776). "Chapter 2, Article 1: Taxes upon the Rent of Houses". The Wealth of Nations, Book V.

Tideman, Nicolaus; Gaffney, Mason (1994). Land and Taxation. Shepheard-Walwyn in association with Centre for Incentive Taxation. ISBN 978-0-85683-162-1.

mothballed 2 days ago

You're quoting how Adam Smith hated landlords/rent, yet you seek to enslave all of society by making the government the landlord of everyone. From Smith's citation you have here, you would seek to exacerbate the problem he identifies.

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tomrod 2 days ago

Thank you again for your thoughts, this will be my last response to you since, based on our interaction, I believe you want the last word. You are substantively incorrect in assertions. You have yet move beyond an assertion that "Georgism is Marxism." I have provided both justification why you assertion is invalid, and pointed out that leading economists of all stripes (orthodox and heterodox) consider a land value tax to both be minimally distortive.
Thanks for the opportunity to present Georgism as a superior policy over the clamor in your prior comments.

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- mothballed 2 days ago
  
  Alright, I stand corrected. Georgism is Marxism for everything it actually is called upon to operate on in practice, which is the land, which by your own omission goes uncontested.
  
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