Recent content by MattButler

Probably does not mean insignificantly. Besides land tax is not all good. It is after all, a tax, but at least its a tax that works in the most benign kind of way. One purpose is to enhance mankind's environment. That is as benign a goal as any you will find. You must confront the issues...

1: Health Care and Health Insurance are two entirely different subjects. Talking about one, we must not confuse the other. 2: Health Insurance ought be cheap and available to anyone who is willing to pay for it. 3: Under a free market system Health Insurance from a dollar revenue...

Under a proper LVT scheme there will be a great deal of land available that is essentially free. People won't desire to own it, or they'll not desire it enough to make the land worth all that much. In any case there should be plenty enough land available for people to homestead. LVT will be a...

I can't answer for Roy L. In my system, we do not rent land from the govt or lease it. There's none of this going to the govt. every year and applying for a leasehold. No. We own the land and we trade it. The Govt. always taxes land based on the price at which it last changed hands, there...

Hey hold on there good buddy. I may have written something haphazardly that led you to believe that, but that is not my view. Willingness and ability to pay the market clearing price determines right to exclusive possession. And in such case mere users and homesteaders can be removed by the...

The rest of your sentence says "...[T]he utter unworkability of such a system necessitates a single predatory monopolistic institution called the State be called upon to wisely preside over the management and distribution of all natural resources as Gods upon Mount Olympus." The statement is...

The LVT position is that there is competition in the marketplace for ownership of land and control of resources and a single tax is to be assessed on the value of land to fund the general welfare of communities. Period. Your screed shows you've either understood nothing or now been reduced to...

Yeah you have. And if a child should somehow run onto your land and get blasted by that shotgun you are most certainly going to prison for a long time. Your "Title" (snicker) to land does not give you unbridled permission to do anything you want on the land to people on the land. Besides...

C'mon Helmuth. You know better than this. If everyone is selling land and no one wants to own it then its value is ZERO and there is no tax to be paid. The market is not going to allow that situation. Buyers will be attracted and despite the LVT, no matter how high you set it, at some level...

LVT does not tax resources. Competition in the marketplace for ownership rights to land, which may be driven by the resources within land, sets the market price for land. The land owner is then assessed a tax on the land. What he chooses to do with the resources is left to his own discretion...

I think this is apples and oranges. Taxing the factory might make it disappear...move to China maybe. Hasn't this happened, a lot actually? More important, an LVT does in fact efficiently order and regulate factories. Consider this example. There is assessed a 20% LVT on all land. Land...

Another day another thread. Our views are already so similar whats the point? Its an anarchist and a geoist arguing over some minutiae. I don't want you to think I'm a litmus test poster solely on these forums to advocate geoism. I have, as a matter of fact, commented on and started several...

The Default position is not anarcho-capitalism. I do not have the burden of proof showing that my system is better than yours in order to dethrone the reigning champion anarcho-capitalism. Because anarcho-capitalism is not the reigning champ. Its scarcely possible, and I think Nozick does a...

Yes. Even more crystal clear than a totally free market anarcho-capitalist society would make it. This is not to say that a Geoist society is superior or equal to an anarcho-capitalist society in all ways. However in one particular way, maximizing the economic utility of land, a Geoist system...

While its true owning land and directing its use can be a productive occupation, its also true that taxing land does not interfere with this function but rather enhances it. I disagree with your assumption that landowners do a good job managing land today, in fact I think many of them do a...