[p2p-research] Fwd: FYI: Letter in the FT Today

[Kevin Carson]

On 4/17/09, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Tax the privileged and reduce the deadweight costs Published: April 16 2009
> 03:00 | Last updated: April 16 2009 03:00
> From Mr Chris Cook.

> First, as advocated by the great US political economist, Henry George (and
> your own Martin Wolf and Samuel Brittan), a levy on land rental values,
> which is a tax on the privilege of exclusive right of occupation of the
> commons of land.

Georgism is pretty popular on the Pacific Rim, isn't it?  George had a
big influence in Chiang Kai-Shek, land value is taxed in Hong Kong,
land-value taxation was used as part of MacArthur's land reform in
Japan, and South Korea has a very large Georgist movement.

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