Geolibertarians are advocates of geoism, which is the position that all land is a common asset to which all individuals have an equal right to access, and therefore if individuals claim the land as their property they must pay rent to the community for doing so. In this way, you are not taking advantage of another person through unfair property acquisition.

Since land was not made by human toil, claiming any of it as your own is illegitimate UNLESS you compensate everyone else with a commonly-accepted standard. In modern economies that would be taxation, but I guess labor could substitute for money if the community decided it that valuable. As opposed to current property taxes which target improvements, the only item being taxed is land. Land where nobody pays taxes from is held in common.

Perceived Lockean theory (which excludes Locke's warning about not “hoard[ing] up without injury to anyone" is not an applicable standard. How do you acquire mineral rights? If I piss into dirt, is that labor? By whose standards?

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Gene, you have no idea what you unleash, my man.... Property rights have been a cornerstone of civilization for centuries.

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Of Western civilization...

I admit, it's hard for me to get my mind around a different system. "Imagine no posessions, I wonder if you can."

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Imagine trying to keep track of everything that you have to "pay rent" for. Try to balance that budget.

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Liberate the world one mind at a time.

There's liars, and then there's damn liars. There's thieves, and then there's corporate executives.

Anti-abortion measures equate to the state raping women; it infiltrates their body and tells them what not to do.

I don't know that it's done this way in all states, but here in Texas, all land that is not publicly owned, is taxed, whether that land is developed or not.

I own a few acres not far from Austin, and although it has literally no development at all except a fence around it (built by neighboring land owners) I still pay taxes. Granted these will go up if I ever develop that land in any way...

but, since I am paying something back to 'society', is this not compatible with this thery of 'geolibertarianism'?

is private land ownership really such a bad thing?

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Liberate the world one mind at a time.

There's liars, and then there's damn liars. There's thieves, and then there's corporate executives.

Anti-abortion measures equate to the state raping women; it infiltrates their body and tells them what not to do.

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Liberate the world one mind at a time.

There's liars, and then there's damn liars. There's thieves, and then there's corporate executives.

Anti-abortion measures equate to the state raping women; it infiltrates their body and tells them what not to do.

He is essentually saying a flat land tax (not taxing more for prime value land over cheap waste land).

That is a bad idea, as the wealthy are going to gooble up the prime land, and the poor are going to be stuck with either crappy land or no land, but those with crappy land are going to be paying the same taxes for it as those with prime land, so that just increases the ecnomic divide between rich and poor. That also makes it so farmers are going to end up paying a lot of money in taxes, causeing food to go way up.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

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Liberate the world one mind at a time.

There's liars, and then there's damn liars. There's thieves, and then there's corporate executives.

Anti-abortion measures equate to the state raping women; it infiltrates their body and tells them what not to do.