Tag
Land-Value-Tax
-
Tax What You Didn't Make
The rent is unearned and the booth is real. This part names the levy that takes the toll and leaves the town: a tax on the site, never on the house, never on the wage. The hard case is not the speculator. It is the family that bought last …
-
Enough and As Good
The whole case rests on five words Locke let slip and then seemed to take back. This part defends them against the three attacks that matter: that Locke abandoned the proviso, that it is an open door to theft, and the serious one, that no …
-
The Last Enclosure
A large language model is the knowledge of the species, enclosed by a corporation and rented back to the people who made it. The value it sells is mostly unearned, captured from a commons it did not create. Open models are the better path …
-
The Tollbooth
The foundation essay and the first part of this series argued that the rent of bare land is unearned. This one looks at the thing itself: the landowner as a man who gates a road he did not build and charges everyone who passes. What the …
-
From Plunder to Justice: A New Foundation of Law and Liberty
Law has one just purpose, to defend natural rights, and never to plunder them. But the hardest case for any philosophy of liberty is land, which no one made and everyone needs. Working from self-ownership and Locke’s own forgotten …