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

[Michel Bauwens]

I'm learning from you Kevin! I think it's a tradition that is mostly unknown
in continental Europe, I had never heard his name before communicating with
you,

Michel

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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