LVTFan’s writings on land value taxation

Seeing the Cat

September 30, 2012 · 1 min

The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 30 — Exodus and the Bishop of Meath

The land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

— Exodus, XX., 12.

Any settlement of the land of a country that would exclude the humblest man in that country from his share of the common inheritance would be not only an injustice and a wrong to that man, but moreover would be an impious resistance to the benevolent intentions of the Creator.

— BISHOP OF MEATH, Letter to Clergy and Laity, April 2, 1881.

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