Harry asserted: > The advantage of land ownership is security of tenure - absolutely vital to > effective use.
No, tenure and effective use will be secured much better with the model I suggested (land commons with parts of land leased to those best able to effective use): Because when it turns out that the user does NOT make best use of the land, the land will be leased to someone else who does better. Whereas in your system of land ownership, the owner will KEEP the land, even if he makes very bad use of it, or just sits on it for speculation! (waiting for land prices to rise) > Any values a landholder produces belongs to him. Any values provided by the > land belongs to the community. Also this goal can be achieved much better with the land commons system: The leaseholder can keep what he produces on the land, while the value OF the land belongs to the community. > If we collect the land-value, that is all that is needed. You just collect some rent (what percentage, btw?), not the land-value. The owner owns the land-value in your system. This leads to massive and injust accumulations of wealth by a few oligarchs. The way to feudalism. > As George said, 'we will keep the kernel, he can have the shell'. No, the kernel is not the rent, the kernel is the land itself. So "we" (the community) must own the land, even according to Henry George. The user can have the shell, i.e. the products of the land (incl. use as dwellings). > Putting land allocation in the hands of government is a disaster waiting to > happen, as you alluded in your other post. Note that the "allocation" does not allocate ownership but only a lease for best use. This leaves no place for bribery, because the lease will be revoked if the user does not make best use of the land. > You know - "bribery", "idiocy", fun for the "FatCats". This referred to privatization of monopolies! (and land ownership is also a monopoly -- on that piece of land) -- which you advocate, both for land and public services like fire service. Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
