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How are "taxes theft" but landownership is not? Why does someone get to claim exclusive ownership over some land and another person does not (just because the f
by dkersten 10y ago
How are "taxes theft" but landownership is not? Why does someone get to claim exclusive ownership over some land and another person does not (just because the first persons ancestors reached the land first (in some cases, only if you conveniently ignore the native population))?
- zo1 10y agoWell, one is where your labor and the benefit of it (earnings) get taken from you without consent. The other is land ownership, I'm not sure how else to digest that? Are you implying that land belongs to everyone and someone claiming exclusive ownership of it is somehow theft? The usual response about how land "becomes" owned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle I really can't think of any fair way of distributing land other than the mechanism above which is essentially "first come first serve" along with a "use it or lose it" expiry mechanism.