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Taxation is the form of socialization used in market economies. Choosing what to tax is choosing what to socialize. Rather than socialize labour or repel capital it is possible to tax land.
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Gaffney, M. (2018). Land Tax. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_756
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