I think a lot of evil could have been prevented if people hadn't been so willing to calm down when that evil was being done.
So no, I don't need to calm down.
You know that is a lie. Injustice is rewards not commensurate with contributions made and penalties not commensurate with deprivations inflicted. That is what YOU advocate through the welfare subsidy giveaway to landowners, not I.
You lied when you claimed you would not care if someone started charging you rent for sunlight. It was just a flat-out LIE.
Wrong. Sunlight and air are not commodities (compressed air is, but I assume you are talking about atmospheric air), and nothing is unlimited (except, of course, the stupidity and dishonesty of anti-LVT liars). And even if they were unlimited, making them into property would limit them in a hurry.
Oh, really now? Human organs suitable for transplants are scarce. Very scarce. Do we need to make them into property and enforce property rights for them, too? Beautiful 12-year-old blonde girls are scarce. Are you going to make them into property? How about facts that refute the arguments for LVT? Those are scarce as hen's teeth. Do we need to enforce property rights for them, too?
In any case, you are just trying to evade responsibility for your lie. You said you don't care if someone made the sun into their private property. You were lying. Now you are saying, "but no one can make the sun into private property because it isn't scarce," ignoring the fact that the very reason you would mind someone making it into their private property is that that would MAKE it scarce.
Lie.
?? Cannot parse. Scarcity has nothing to do with it. The relevant fact is that people are naturally at liberty to use land, and appropriating the land as private property removes their rights to liberty without just compensation. People are NOT naturally at liberty to use capital, as it first has to be supplied by its producer.
No, it is merely a self-evident and indisputable fact of objective physical reality that conclusively refutes all your arguments, and that you are non-capable of answering.
No, it most certainly does not. Your stupid, evil lies, for example, do not come from the land. So stop blaming your stupid, evil lies on the land. They come from YOU, and nowhere else. Blaming the land for them is grotesque and obscene as well as dishonest and evil.
Absurd and dishonest non sequitur. Makin' $#!+ up about what my premises are is not an argument, sorry.
Products of labor are not land and do not come from the land. They are produced by human labor. If you want to insist on your stupid and dishonest charade of claiming "everything comes from the land," that just shifts the terminology. Fine. Instead of just using the honest terms, "land" and "capital," we can instead distinguish between "things that come from the land" with the assistance of human labor and those that come from the land without any assistance from human labor. As the former are not things people would otherwise be at liberty to use, they are rightly property. As the latter are things that people WOULD otherwise be at liberty to use, making them into property removes people's rights to liberty, and therefore can't be rightful.
No, we aren't, any more than we are going to exclude the bread we take home from the supermarket from our grocery bill because we could make bread at home or get it from a food bank. Even assuming the police, courts, etc. can be privatized without sacrificing their raison d'etre -- justice -- (which they can't), until they ARE privatized, we need a way to pay for them.
No, that's just an absurd and outrageous lie. What's really moot is your claim that they can be privatized: how is that workin' out for ya in Somalia? Until they HAVE been privatized, we DO need to pay taxes for them.
Even assuming you could privatize them (you can't), you would then just be paying for them some other way -- and probably paying more for less.
Blatant question begging fallacy.
Wrong. Land value quantifies it very exactly. It is identically equal to the minimum value of the benefits the landowner expects to take from other people and not repay in taxes.
They have taken my liberty to use the land from me, stop lying. They have taken everyone else's liberty to use the land from them, too, stop lying. They have taken away our opportunity to benefit from the services and infrastructure government provides, the opportunities and amenities the community provides and the physical advantages nature provides at that location, stop lying.
