The OFFICIAL CSMA politics test 431

Alan Baker

funny thing is that 'pet philosophy' is Georgism-Geolibertarianism, something that I discovered a couple of years ago and find most fascinating, in that I think it is an excellent complement to my general left-libertarianism, and is quite strikingly ideologically pure (once you accept the premise that natural resources putatively belong to all) and (horrifically) efficient means of raising tax monies.

While modern society is simply too far gone to get on the Georgism regime of land taxation (at least in my lifetime), I do wish everyone at least understood its precepts, for IMO it is a rather cool way of understanding the true dynamics of wealth creation and appropriation.

Georgism had its heyday at the turn of the 19-20th centuries; Marx called it "Capitalism's last ditch", and Liberal Party's attempt to establish its taxation regime during the UK's Progressive revolution precipitated a mbuttive consbreastutional crisis with the (landed, natch) House of Lords.

While I don't think the Georgist LVT is a perfect regime, from what I can understand it is vastly superior to the mixed and rather f***ed-up system we have now, especially what I see in Kullifornia, which happens to be the birthplace of Georgism, more or less.