LVTFan’s writings on land value taxation

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April 13, 2012 · 1 min

The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 13 — Jefferson

Wherever there is in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on.

— THOMAS JEFFERSON (1785), Ford’s Writings of Jefferson, Vol. VII., 36.

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