User talk:RicBeall

I am quite certain the source linked in footnote 5, in fact the entire section with the heading Landlord Policing Responsibilities, would not pass the basic "reliable, published source" test for Wikipedia, or any other article or document claiming to be an encyclopedia. I suspect it is an artifact of the past and attempt to advance a personal political opinion. In fact, that link goes to an archive that explicitly states it has not been active since 2010. If no one objects, I will delete the entire section and source in a matter of due course.RicBeall (talk) 23:07, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Georgism
I am proposing that Georgism be grouped in its own class or moved to the right. If William F. Buckley, Jr. was a Georgist, and he was, it shouldn't be on the left, as much as you might think it should from your perspective today. He even cites Alfred J. Nocks book on Henry George. I'm sure WFBJr.'s ghost would approve.

CALLER: I've heard you describe yourself as a Georgist, a follower of Henry George, but I haven't heard much in having you promote land value taxation and his theories, and I'm wondering why that is the case.

W.F.B.: It's mostly because I'm beaten down by my right-wing theorists and intellectual friends. They always find something wrong with the Single-Tax idea. What I'm talking about Mr. Lamb is Henry George who said there is infinite capacity to increase capital and to increase labor, but none to increase land, and since wealth is a function of how they play against each other, land should be thought of as common property. The effect of this would be that if you have a parking lot and the Empire State Building next to it, the tax on the parking lot should be the same as the tax on the Empire State Building, because you shouldn't encourage land speculation.

Anyway I've run into tons of situations where I think the Single-Tax theory would be applicable. We should remember also this about Henry George, he was sort of co-opted by the socialists in the 20s and the 30s, but he was not one at all. Alfred J. Nock's book on him makes that plain. Plus, also, he believes in only that tax. He believes in zero income tax.

--RicBeall (talk) 10:54, 30 September 2017 (UTC)