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Nope. The government could own all land and have the same system for withdrawing leases as is currently employed for eminent domain. You might say the governmen
by James_K 2y ago
Nope. The government could own all land and have the same system for withdrawing leases as is currently employed for eminent domain. You might say the government could change that system, but it can also change eminent domain. This is not an inherent difference of the two systems. One could even envision a system where the government has no ability at all to withdraw a lease and thus occupants are more safe than they would be under eminent domain. On a practical level, the Georgist system might even be more likely to turf people out than a social land system, because presumably the land tax would increase to price people out at the market rate, where a lease agreement is more likely to have controlled increases.