The question came across my google alerts today:

Why don’t we tax away economic rent instead of taxing production … “Why don’t we tax away economic rent instead of taxing production?” - Find the answer to this question and millions more on Yahoo!7 Answers. au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid…

and I was eager to see what answers had been posted – my quickly composed one was “because the powers-that-be like privatizing eonomic rent.” (That’s how they stay p-t-b

So I was disappointed to find

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Hmmm.