Progress and Poverty · Chapter
Book IX: Effects of the Remedy explained
This chapter explores the transformative effects of implementing the single tax on land values, arguing that it would abolish poverty, eliminate industrial depressions, promote social justice, and foster human progress by removing the specu
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This chapter explores the transformative effects of implementing the single tax on land values, arguing that it would abolish poverty, eliminate industrial depressions, promote social justice, and foster human progress by removing the speculative holding of land and ensuring that all individuals have equal access to natural opportunities.
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- The Single Tax on Land Values
The chapter details the anticipated effects of the single tax remedy on poverty, depressions, and social progress.
- Social Justice and Equality
The remedy is presented as a means to achieve greater social justice and equality by ensuring equal access to land.
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The narrator presents the argument for the effects of the single tax remedy.
Key passages
“The effects of the remedy would be to abolish poverty, to raise wages, to increase the earnings of capital, to extirpate pauperism, to do away with the fear of old age and the dread of want, to give to all classes the comforts and refinements of civilization, and to make possible a higher and nobler civilization.”
Implementing the single tax would eliminate poverty, increase wages and capital returns, eradicate pauperism, remove fears of old age and want, provide all classes with civilized comforts, and enable a more advanced civilization.
The narrator summarizes the broad positive outcomes expected from the remedy.
