on this one officially of course how does georgism per that monopolization address wealthy individuals and corporations be able to outbid their less wealthy counterparts on the land. well basically the idea is that you wouldn't have so much absentee ownership and you wouldn't have hoarding of land because there's a price to pay for that you'd be paying the tax and if you don't use the land efficiently for example six to eight percent of new york city land is vacant according to the department of finance and depending i count it so if you don't use that efficiently then you know you're going to be paying a penalty essentially so there's and urban. crawlin and then suburban sprawl and it really puts people closer to the center and makes them use land more efficiently what it doesn't do one of the fears is that it would take away all the park land that's not really true because people want to live near a park and so they're willing to pay extra for that so that just becomes more viable and. but it does break up the monopolies on the hoarding them and all of these little for example mcdona

georgism incorporates is what's called the big ovary in taxes which are essentially taxes on pollution and despoil ation of land or air or water which are under classical definition as part of land so that if they do put pollution into something that basically belongs to all of us they also have to pay a tax on that as well so it's in their best interest not to pollute because they'll have to pay more money for that so we don't look at it as a point where they can spoil the land and make it worthless we say what is the maximum best use of that land and anything that's. taking away from that basically is is something that we would tax and and we would take a take that back karl marx famously called george's and capitalism is last ditch criticize a philosophy as something that would not only preserve capitalism domination but expand it how do you respond. yeah well this is the interesting thing you know henry george was no friend of karl marx or his philosophy and vice versa so sometimes people accuse georgism of being communism and it's actually funny because it's almost the opposite it