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Emma Lazarus was a poet of considerable reputation in her day, who was a strong supporter of Henry George and his "socialistic" single-tax program, and a friend of William Morris, a leading British socialist.
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George's theory is often called a “single-tax” theory, because it reduces all taxes to ground rent alone.
Archive 2009-01-01 Paleocrat 2009
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She continued to oversee single-tax collective agricultural settlements at Hollesley Bay and Essex, in England, as well as in Mobile Bay, Alabama, and Arden, Delaware.
Mary Fels. 2009
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Hence comes the idea of the “single-tax” on the unimproved value of land, with the idea that it is to compensate the vast majority of humankind for the deprivation since all the land has been deeded off to others before they were ever born of their natural birthright to joint proprietorship in the earth, have been deprived of their access to this natural capital.
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Hence comes the idea of the “single-tax” on the unimproved value of land, with the idea that it is to compensate the vast majority of humankind for the deprivation since all the land has been deeded off to others before they were ever born of their natural birthright to joint proprietorship in the earth, have been deprived of their access to this natural capital.
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This was, of course, not the single-tax system, still it was as near an approach to it as could be had under existing circumstances.
Resurrection 2003
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Mr Louw said tax relief resulting from the introduction of a single-tax scale could boost private consumption.
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The Commissioner had finished third in a three-man race, behind Abram Hewitt, the Democrat, and Henry George, the radical originator of the single-tax movement.
The Lunatic Fringe DeAndrea, William L. 1980
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The single-tax idea is that all the public revenue should be raised by a land tax.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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He may be able to discuss single-tax with some acumen, for instance.
A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick
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