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Guys, he said the second best selling book to close out the 19th century.

My second guess would be then, A Tale of Two Cities by C. Dickens.

 
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be easy, you know i know the answer to this one because you told me two months ago.  the initials of the author are H. G. and its not a sci fi book but a political one.
 
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for those date challenged, the 19th century was between 1801-1900
 
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The dictonary.
 
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Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician andpolitical economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the philosophy and economic ideology known as Georgism, which is that everyone owns what he or she creates, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity. His most famous work is Progress and Poverty, written during 1879; it is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrial economies and the possible re
 
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Single tax on land

Henry George is best known for his argument that the economic rent of land should be shared by society rather than being owned privately. The clearest statement of this view is found in Progress and Poverty: "We must make land common property."[13] By taxing land values, society could recapture the value of its common inheritance, and eliminate the need for taxes on productive activity.

Modern-day environmentalists[who?] have agreed with the idea of the earth as the common property of humanity – and some have endorsed the idea of ecological tax reform, including substantial taxes or fees on pollution as a replacement for "command and control" regulation.

 
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Posted: #32
war and peace
 
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BE - wouldnt a land value tax abolish private property? (in terms of land ownership i mean)

 
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correct

Progress and Poverty, by Henry George

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why have you never heard of this man or his book
 
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Because i can't read
 
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Australia
 
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Quote Originally Posted by be easy:

correct

Progress and Poverty, by Henry George

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why have you never heard of this man or his book

no one wanted to publish it back then, but i'm lost as to your reasoning as far as modern times

 
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Quote Originally Posted by captjohn67:

no one wanted to publish it back then, but i'm lost as to your reasoning as far as modern times



i'm confused here cap't
 
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because realtors, government agencies and most especially the giant land owners have so much to gain.
its politics and the MAN, fucking the little guy over.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by be easy:



i'm confused here cap't

i think i am as well... i think i misunderstood your question

 
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Quote Originally Posted by be easy:

correct

Progress and Poverty, by Henry George

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why have you never heard of this man or his book

????

 
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Quote Originally Posted by KOAJ:

BE - wouldnt a land value tax abolish private property? (in terms of land ownership i mean)



No

How does private property in terms of land ownership work in our present system (because everything is relative, so in order to compare,,,,,)

I find it odd, that no one is willing to at least attempt to learn about LVT, before trying to argue against it's validity.  We spent plenty of time bitching about problems, at some point you have to start looking for solutions

There is some solid conspiracy angles here as well, i mean how could an American be such a famous historical figure, with such a widely distributed series of books discussing his ideas, yet no one seems to have ever heard of him

I bet you 99+% of people would tell you they've at least heard of Karl Marx, yet only about 1% have heard of Henry George. Is this by chance, or by design?

The greatest form of tyranny is self-censorship of ideas,,,,,,,,,,
 
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I wouldn't be surprised if he was fairly well-regarded in the early century. 

But since his ideas border on Communism and definitely have socialist themes, I suspect there probably was a fair amount of political forces conspiring to keep his book from being published and disseminated by the time the 1930's came round.



 
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be - i dont know of the LVT. not shooting it down, but i have 6 books on my office desk to read before i can get into henry george

currently we have no private property (land) in the USA because land owners pay property taxes. we essentially rent our plot from the government
 
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I bet you 99+% of people would tell you they've at least heard of Karl Marx, yet only about 1% have heard of Henry George. Is this by chance, or by design?
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by design...there's a reason most kids in american idolize abe lincoln when he should be despised
 
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youve mentioned abe before.  
sure he shit all over the constitution, is that why you say that?
his problem set regarding secession and slave issues were pretty difficult.
would you be so kind as to quantify your grievances and also remark as to how you might have handled the challenges of 1861 without using the constitution as a bird cage liner(an issue i feel our last admin and current admin have)
 
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abe lincoln could give two shits about the slaves. he wanted his cross country railroad built and he was successfully lobbied by large RR owners to push a nationwide land tax to pay for the railroads. northern industrialists didnt own much land. southern farmers did. he only freed northern slaves (emancipation) to help him fight the civil war. he is on record as having wanted to deport them after the war

he created the first income tax which was later ruled unconstitutional

also, he shut down 300+ opposition newspapers/pamhplets. he suspended the writ of habeus corpus

the union (of states) was a voluntary union...meaning states could get out if they wanted to. why join otherwise? lincoln believed all who opposed him were treasonous

read more here
 
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Quote Originally Posted by KOAJ:

be - i dont know of the LVT. not shooting it down, but i have 6 books on my office desk to read before i can get into henry george

currently we have no private property (land) in the USA because land owners pay property taxes. we essentially rent our plot from the government


KOAJ, i am certain that you would take interest to it. 


 
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Under The Bleachers   by Seymore Butz
 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by be easy:



KOAJ, i am certain that you would take interest to it. 




grr....remind me in a few months. seriously. very busy and lots to read

https://mises.org/store/The-Law-P408.aspx

here's one for you...very short and easy to read.
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