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Re: A world Parliament would make and enforce world law
Doug EVERINGHAM
Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:28:43
(* Funding: one suggestion worth noting is a tax on the world's non-renewable natural resources. Minerals and fossil fuels are the natural resources for the planet and should not be considered to be only the wealth of the peoples who happen to live above them within a national territory. (...) Debating this within this discussion is worthwhile in creating a database of ideas for such an assembly. *)
Doug Everingham's response:
The idea of all land and its resources being common property on which tenants pay rent to the community has long been advocated and occasionally partly practised (e.g. in early years for the Australian Capital Territory).
It ensures that when neighbourhood development imparts extra value to a land site, that value enriches the community that brought that gain, and when a community dies, the tenant enjoys a fall in rental. The Henry George movement <http://www.henrygeorge.org/> in several countries advocates this system, in some cases urging that land rent be the sole income of governments and other taxes abolished.
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