Robin Hood Tax ?

[Steven Douglas]

Steven's been comprehensively demolished at every turn.

One of the most entertaining things about arguing with statists (and especially the Don Quixote-like geoist zealots), is watching them behave as if they really were the lone arbiters of just how successful or convincing are their own arguments. Indeed it is the only way they can win. No need to poll anyone. Just ask the Slayers of Windmills themselves how many dragons they have dispatched. The answer, of course, will be, "All of them."

 

[MattintheCrown]

One of the most entertaining things about arguing with statists (and especially the Don Quixote-like geoist zealots), is watching them behave as if they really were the lone arbiters of just how successful or convincing are their own arguments. Indeed it is the only way they can win. No need to poll anyone. Just ask the Slayers of Windmills themselves how many dragons they have dispatched. The answer, of course, will be, "All of them."

One need but glance at the absurdities contained in your posts for proof, Steven.

 

[Steven Douglas]

One need but glance at the absurdities contained in your posts for proof, Steven.

Oh...is that all "one" need do? lol

 

[MattintheCrown]

Oh...is that all "one" need do? lol

Yep. Many of your posts opposing LVT are so absurd that they don't parse. To the extent you can even be understood, you propose a system where no one has any rights, and must purchase their very right to exist from some landowner.

 

[James Madison]

Sigh. The state doesn't use land for its personal gain.

Yes, it does. In order for the state to function it must be provided with income to pay those it employs, those who profit from the state's existance.

The state is an instrument of society.

An instrument to punish any who disagree with the majority opinion.

It's supposed to represent its constituent members.

I don't support the LVT. Yet if such a tax were adopted I would be forced to pay it. How is this representation?

 

[Steven Douglas]

::: whinging about a failure to comprehend plain English when it is not aligned with geofascism snipped :::

...you propose a system where no one has any rights, and must purchase their very right to exist from some landowner.

You mean as opposed to forever renting a conditional privilege to exist instead from the state? How is that rarified air up there in Backwards Vacuum Land? Here is what you are either misapprehending, or else deliberately and disingenuously failing to acknowledge:

With or without LVT, there is no question of whether or not someone must pay for exclusive use or ownership of land. Under either regime, the ONLY questions regarding payment(s) are a) to whom, b) for how much, and c) for how long.

The last time I checked (this afternoon, actually), all kinds of land was available on the market, and for actual sale, in all fifty states. And when you pay a private owner for a parcel of land, you actually own it (at least to the extent that it is not taxed). Under LVT, landownership (the actual right to exist) is not even an option (regardless how a title is labeled).

It is under YOUR proposed system that no one has any rights, as they cannot even purchase the right to exist from anyone, let alone the state. They can only rent a conditional privilege to exist, as everyone is forever presumed to be a perpetual renter of land from the landlord state.