THE SINGLETAXER.
Two well-known advocates of the single tax have voiced their disapproval of our remarks, published on nth /April, concerning their pet confiscation scheme. Their letters appeared this week, one in Tuesday’s issue and the other occupied over a column's space on Wednesday. Their arguments were indeed verbosely spun. Ours shall be brief. We shall merely’ call attention to! th'e point that they’ and other singletaxers insist on the very obvious fact that “land values,” as they’ call the values of land, are not due to the owner, but to the people around him. Well ! The “belltopper” owes [ its value to a similar cause —to the! presence of singletaxers and their! mates and other people around it.; But for them the wearer of the coveted “belltopper” would scrap; it, and if it suited him his other; clothes also, and eat raw pipis. I Think this out you who are inclin-; ed to confiscate the unearned incre-! ment. The fact is that everything without exception owes its value to the people around, for the simple reason that value in economics means by definition “value in exchange,” and exchange is only possible when there are people to exchange with. Have we got the matter, at last, put simply enough for the singletaxer?
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 108, 21 April 1911, Page 4
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