tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6756434140794129886.post6029742116830046427..comments2023-07-13T20:45:46.860-07:00Comments on Knowing Humans: Why Not "Save Lives" With Single-Payer Healthcare?Brian Holtzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284822676116941984noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6756434140794129886.post-17894570282460326892009-10-25T20:30:45.590-07:002009-10-25T20:30:45.590-07:00My book doesn't go into any details about geo-...My book doesn't go into any details about geo-/eco-libertarianism. I recommend my portal <a href="http://earthfreedom.net/" rel="nofollow">http://earthfreedom.net</a>. In my manifesto there I write:<br /><br />* Production of property via extraction of natural resources from a community commons should require a fee to the community proportional to the decrease in the ability of that commons to sustainably support such extraction.<br />* Verifiable endangerment of a species or ecosystem that is part of the commons of a community is aggression against any non-consenting member of that community.<br />* Persons may exert peaceful honest first control of unowned land and thus acquire the transferable right to possess it indefinitely, as long as they leave "as much and as good" for others, or as long as the land's geo-rent is shared with those persons whose access to it is impaired.<br />* Geo-rent is the excess production obtained by using a site in its most productive use, compared to the production obtained by applying equivalent inputs of labor and capital at the most productive site where the application doesn't require (additional) payments for use of the site.<br /><br />The world's foremost authority on geolibertarianism is Prof. Fred Foldvary. In these papers he describes how geo-rent can be returned to the community via a land-value tax:<br /><br />* <a href="http://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/FoldvaryIntellectualTyrannyApril2005.pdf" rel="nofollow">Geo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists</a> - Foldvary (2005) summarizes the economic case<br />* <a href="http://www.foldvary.net/works/policystudy.pdf" rel="nofollow">The Ultimate Tax Reform: Public Revenue from Land Rent</a> - Foldvary (2006) compares to other reforms<br /><br />I would agree that some site improvements are harder to price separately from the site itself. Foldvary describes how to assessors use data about nearby sites to make these valuations. <br /><br />So my answer to your question is: if the landholder is returning geo-rent through a land value tax, and pays a resource depletion tax as described in the first bullet above, and is not endangering an ecosystem per the second bullet, then they otherwise have the full rights to the agricultural and biological output of the site.Brian Holtzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18284822676116941984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6756434140794129886.post-59580712143693988292009-10-25T18:16:04.420-07:002009-10-25T18:16:04.420-07:00Hi; like your writing but haven't yet read you...Hi; like your writing but haven't yet read your book (it may explain my question - I'll get around to it some time). It's about this phrase: "all persons have the right of equal access to everything that is neither a person nor in any way a product of persons". I'm interested in the "nor in any way a product of persons" bit. Hypothetical time:<br /><br />if an individual has control of many acres of wild forest and has developed and put into practice sustainable harvest methods which preserve the biodiversity and productivity of the land, then how would one determine who has rights to the timber (or any of other flora or fauna of the managed ecosystem)? <br /><br />I suppose one could make the case that allowing for total "ownership" of land & its productive capacity is antithetical to the spirit of ACTUAL stewardship, but I'm just thinking of the problem within the confines of status quo property law.Jambehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06373677455129413039noreply@blogger.com