http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/29/the-lp-loses-a-member/
 
Yes, JRE, geolibertarians say the right to vote is independent of whether
one is a land monopolist and must therefore compensate community members for
excluding them from the land one monopolizes.  Read on to see how
geolibertarianism solves two problems that no other school of libertarianism
claims to solve.
 
The Wikipedia article gets one nuance slightly wrong.  Geolibertarians don't
necessarily believe that all land is an unownable commons.  Rather, some of
us simply take very literally the Lockean proviso that homesteading an
unowned resource (e.g. virgin land) must leave "as much and as good" for
others.  So we say there would be zero land value tax on you if there is
available to others "as much and as good" land as that which you monopolize
-- or if you allow the community to use the land you squat on in the same
way that you use it.  The land value tax only kicks in when monopoly rents
are earned due to the Lockean proviso being violated.  Such rents are a
violation of individual rights under the Lockean analysis, and are thus
aggression.  The geolibertarian land value "tax" is not really a "tax", but
rather is reparations for this aggression.  (A LVT does not tax site
improvements like buildings etc.)
 
Geolibertarianism thus solves the central conundrum of minarchism: how to
finance the protection of life, liberty, and property without initiating
force.  Its solution even offers an unanticipated bonus: a
non-force-initiating libertarian safety net for the poor.  Geolibertarianism
points out that in the state of nature there is always marginal but
productive land available for use by the destitute, and that faithful
historical observation of the Lockean proviso (leaving "as much and as
good") should have always ensured that this remained the case even to this
day.  To the extent that it is no longer the case, excluding people from
access to the natural productive opportunities on what used to be the
commons is unjust -- i.e. is aggression.  Therefore, where land is scarce
its "ground rent" should be considered part of the commons, with each
individual having an equal claim on it.  
 
Technically, "ground rent" is is the excess production obtained by using a
site in its most productive use, compared to the production obtained by
applying equivalent inputs of labor and capital at the most productive site
where the application doesn't require (additional) payments for use of the
site.  In other words, ground rent is the advantage you get from exclusive
use of a site compared to the most productive available site that is not in
use.
 
For more information, see my site http://ecolibertarian.org/.
 

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