Henry George and the turning point of big government in America

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

What, exactly, is your definition of "take advantage of them?"

You seem so full of hate for successful people.

[blueunicorn6]

Hahahahahahahahaha!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You chose to not answer the question, but to comment on it.

That is a very superficial approach.

[blueunicorn6]

Gosh.

A parrot.

How clever.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You chose to not answer the question, but to comment on it.

That is a very superficial approach.

[blueunicorn6]

E, you personally responded to me.

I didn’t post to you.

You believe that you are some kind of mystic that can discern secret messages out of what I write.

I asked a question for consideration by all.

You decided to attack me for it.

And now you want to play word games because you don’t want to address my original question.

You are a poor sophist, E.

Why are you so against truth?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just as I suspected. Another narcissist virtue signaler.

[blueunicorn6]

You argue like a third grader.

Go out and do some writing with your colored chalks on the sidewalk.

[blueunicorn6]

And you, dear E, are a poor sophist.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Should they seek to help them or to take advantage of them?

What is your definition of "help them" and "take advantage of them?"

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Georgists are still around. The offer courses in large cities and also online. I don't really understand their theory, but I think they have the idea that a tax on the value of land would encourage more "rational" and "responsible" use of land. Georgists would deny that they were socialists in the usual sense of the word, but many people were moved to become socialists after going through a Georgist phase. More here.

Some villages or towns were founded as Georgist colonies: Fairhope, AL, Arden, DE, Free Acres, NJ, Rose Valley, PA. Some failed (Halidon, ME, Tahanto, MA), but others went on to become liberal or leftist or bohemian or non-conformist centers. There was some connection between Georgism and the "Little Lander" movement that sought to create self-reliant agricultural communes on the land.

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1886: The Men Who Would Be Mayor

[blueunicorn6]

It is a question written to cause people to consider.

What do you think, dear E?

[ProgressingAmerica]

The business of government is not to lead and manage citizens. That’s the belief system of progressivism.

The business of government is to secure liberty. It is up to us to lead and manage our own lives.

[blueunicorn6]

“The business of government is to secure Liberty.”?

Well, the rest of us are living in the real world.

You go ask those city employees to secure your Liberty for you.

See what happens.

[ProgressingAmerica]

It appears we are perhaps both saying the same thing, just in a different way.