Progress and Poverty · Question
How does Progress and Poverty develop the theme of The Single Tax on Land Values?
Answer
Progress and Poverty by Henry George develops The Single Tax on Land Values across the chapters the companion marks for this theme.
Proposes that taxing only the value of land (rent) is the just and efficient remedy to abolish poverty, stimulate production, simplify government, and restore economic equality.
Proposed as the simple and just method to abolish other taxes and restore common rights to land, benefiting all classes.
The chapter presents the Single Tax as the comprehensive remedy for poverty and inequality, arguing that taxing land rent would fund public services and eliminate the need for other taxes.
The chapter proposes the single tax on land values as the remedy, arguing that it would abolish all other taxes and restore natural justice by making land common property.
Evidence in the book
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
Proposed as the simple and just method to abolish other taxes and restore common rights to land, benefiting all classes.
- Book V: The Problem Solved
The chapter presents the Single Tax as the comprehensive remedy for poverty and inequality, arguing that taxing land rent would fund public services and eliminate the need for other taxes.
- Book VI: The Remedy
The chapter proposes the single tax on land values as the remedy, arguing that it would abolish all other taxes and restore natural justice by making land common property.
- From Governmental Direction and Interference
The chapter concludes that the necessary social regeneration is encapsulated in the motto 'Land and Liberty!' hinting at the single tax remedy.
- From a More General Distribution of Land
Implicitly advocated as the only thoroughgoing remedy, in contrast to ineffective measures like subdivision or tenant right.
- II: The True Remedy
Although not named explicitly, the remedy of making land common property is the foundation for the single tax proposal developed later in the work.
- Book VII: Justice of the Remedy
The chapter focuses on the justice of implementing a single tax on land values as a remedy for poverty and inequality.
- III: Claim of Land Owners to Compensation
Implicitly advocated through the call for the people to resume ownership of land without compensating current holders.
