Henry George
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George splits libertarians on land. Progress and Poverty (1879) argued that people own what they make, but nobody made the land, so its rising value belongs to the community; a single tax on land value could replace taxes on work and trade. Free-market economists from Friedman onwards called it the least bad tax, while property-rights libertarians such as Rothbard rejected it as confiscation.
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