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In what way is the land collectively owned? The business would show a deed and prove they already own the land. Also, if I already own a house privately, I wo
by moxious 9y ago
In what way is the land collectively owned? The business would show a deed and prove they already own the land.
Also, if I already own a house privately, I would pay the commons rent on what I already own? This seems to pervert the notion of ownership.
- the_gastropod 9y agoIn the US (and most countries), land "ownership" is already a perverted notion. You often must pay personal property tax on the land you "own", the government, through eminent domain, can take the land you "own", etc.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoAs the land is not something that you created your 'ownership' of it is simply a grant from the commons. Unless I am misinformed this is explicitly the case in the US as far as many tracts of land in the mid-west are concerned, the federal government granted parcels of land to those who would settle there. The point is that because it is a grant from the commons there is no natural law that says that that grant cannot be handled in a different way than it is now. If society as a whole decides that this grant is no longer to be regarded as absolute then there is no barrier to taxing the occupier of the land.
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