From: Timothy Bates (tbates@karri.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 13 1999 - 03:13:37 MDT
Raymond G. Van De Walker argued
> I favor a single tax on real-estate, because protecting real-estate is
> the only value that I'm certain that only government could create. Also,
> this tax therefore cannot punish consumption by poor people, and only
> punishes relatively well-off land-owners. At the same time, it punishes
> inefficient use of land.
that, I think, is the first coherent, logical, justification for tax that I
have ever heard: restrict it to taxes on the values created by government.
Excellent reasoning.
tim
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