Showing posts with label property tax. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Sandwichman — The Strange Cult of Henry George

Interesting quote from a Libertarian about abolishing property tax as necessary to secure freedom.

Libertarians hold that taxes are simply a substitute for the direct confiscation of property that governments used to impose. Taxation, even with representation is a fig leaf for that.

This is relevant to the Chartalist and MMT view that taxes drive state money by creating a demand for it, allowing governments to transfer private resources to public use, and that the tax power is coercive, enforced by state power.

Libertarianism is based on freedom from coercion.

The radical right libertarian position — anarcho-capitalism — is to end coercion by making private property rights absolute. Governance is through natural spontaneous order.

The radical left libertarian position — anarcho-socialism — is to abolish private property rights and return to the commons. Governance is by consensus.

Both see their view as the fair way to deal with this issue.

Econospeak
The Strange Cult of Henry George
Sandwichman