My point is that this is a wonderful short-term solution, but as the people become more prosperous so will the productivity and value of the land rise and those poor peasants will eventually become land owners themselves and speculate in its value. Thus poverty will not go away and these past workers will treat others as badly as they were previously once treated.

Unless the charitable organization of this kind (of small loans banking) cannot prevent the rent from land use to be fairly shared, all that is going to occur is the same in our corrupt Western society! They should work with the various governments with this aspect for legeslation of land ownership in mind. Progress and poverty are not solvable without control of land utility and its earnings. As Georgists it is our responsibility to make these facts known and understood by those whose largesse can be mis-used in a longer run, even as it is doing good for the present generation.

unfortunately many other institutions who do work with this greater subject are also politically constrained, so that they too do not really manage to properly explain how the whole system works. Not only do we join with these institutions with our limited vision in common with theirs, but we actually allow them to continue without criticsm in supporting their limited programs and agendii. I suppose this is because in practice we are no better than they are, although we certainly like to think so.

What we ought to be doing is developing some general macroeconomic theory which is so correct and obvious that it is almost irrefutable. With our superior knowledge of more of the system, we should be able to do this easily. I can certainly supply many ideas. Then it should be possible for us to challange the institutions for higher learning with a scientific means for explaining how macroeconomics functions, which they cannot deny, and which will demonstrate (amongst a host of other problems and principles) theoretically why LVT is the best way for governments to run their tax collection. programmes.

I rather regretted the abolition of feu duties as it erased the mediaeval idea that the “King should live of his own” – and his own was the rent due from those who held the land from him. What is more equitable than that those who own the land and natural resources of a country should pay for running it?

iBefore VAT, for centuries the tradition in English and British fiscal policy was that the working man should not be taxed. Taxes were gifts from the Commons to the Crown while land rents from the Lords were the natural due of the Crown.

Now the people are grossly taxed they emigrate or do not breed and are replaced by immigrants. The State devours its children, like the late Roman Empire, – and decays.

The lessons of history and our contemporary experience seem never to be well learned. What will it take to see real justice, real equality of opportunity, real liberty become the norm instead of the very rare and very insecure exception.