LVTFan’s writings on land value taxation

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March 31, 2012 · 1 min

The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 31 — Adam Smith

A tax upon ground-rents would not raise the rent of houses. It would fall altogether upon the owner of the ground-rent, who acts always as a monopolist and exacts the greatest rent which can be got for the use of the ground.

— ADAM SMITH, Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V., Chap. 2, Art. I.

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