Grian

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[–] Grian@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Georgism is an ideology broadly based on taxing the full value of land, in order to prevent rentseeking.

So rather than taxing people for the property they built/bought, you tax the land which no one made.

The value of the land is based on the progress society made in that area, so when you tax the full unimproved value of the land, you prevent landlords from essentially leeching on the results of society progress that they did not directly contirubute to.

You can still buy land, but when you do you must pay full rent to the government, so technically, if the government did own all the land and lease it out for rent, it would be goergist in practice(but not in spirit, since goergism wants to protect property rights)

[–] Grian@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (27 children)

Once again, may I introduce you to GEORGISM.

Please, I know lemmy is a bit left leaning, and georgism are mostly libertarians/liberal, but the ideology is so centrist and common sense I'm sure even far left communist advocates can get behind it.

[–] Grian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

BREXIT MEANS BREXIT