Henry George Quotes About Values

• As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living.

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• The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive.It is the taking by the community for the use of the community of that value which is the creation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by nature be attained.

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  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

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  Henry George (1911). “The Complete Works of Henry George”

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• Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

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  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.288, Cosimo, Inc.

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