Georgism

Georgismball, not to be confused with Geolibertarianismball, is an economically center-right, generally culturally center-left ideology that is typically placed in the lower middle of the political compass.

He believes that there should only be one tax, being the land value tax. He views property rights as only extending to the properties of labor and capital, and since land is neither, it's free realestate. Though his main bit is only having one tax, he sometimes promotes a citizen's dividend and pollution taxes, as a treat.

Overall, his ideology is centered around land & its distribution and his beliefs are often summed up with the phrase (usually in all caps) "landlords don't have rights", though this is somewhat of an exaggeration.

While his views on land rights and natural resource ownership are very collectivist, to combat unjust inequality, most of his other views are liberal and relatively individualistic, focusing on creating efficiency in the economy to create more land value to tax.

His father Physiocracy was quite old and absent when he was born, so he was mostly brought up by his uncle Classical Liberalism.

Of all his cousins, he's generally on best terms with Liberalism; but he also tries to keep friendly with Capitalism and File:Soc.png Socialism even though they seldom leave room for his views, especially when they're in the same room together...

How To Draw

Fill a ball with this shade of green.
Cut in half and fill top/left half with gold.
Draw the eyes.
(Optional) Either
1. Draw, in black, a square seperated in 4 at a 45 degree angle.
2. Add cat ears and three grey whiskers on each side.

Relationships

Friends

Geolibertarianismball - Ah yes, my more uncompromising son; not so fond of our statist left-wing family members.
Geo-Anarchismball - Hates the state even more than his brother. Wait, son, how are you going to tax the land without a state? Nevermind, it's the intention that counts.
Geomutualismball - Let's be mutually beneficial to each other!
Social Georgismball - Hmhmhm... Should we spend it all on welfare?
Classical Liberalismball - Taught me Classical Economics and usually supports my views on landlords.
Liberalismball - He used to promote my ideas; unfortunately only when it suited him.
Environmentalismball - Polluting and exploiting our natural resources lowers the value of the land, and thus reduces future tax revenue!
Social Democracyball - I really think she could be warming up to the idea of a land value tax...
Democratic Socialismball - Probably already wants to make land common property.
Neoliberalismball - Sometimes supports my ideas, in spite of his distorted Neoclassical understanding.
Libertarianball - Thinks LVT is the least bad tax.
Mutualismball - Not sure I understand her, but at least she thinks land shouldn't be a commodity.

Frenemies

Maoismball - ~~Shares opinion on Landlords...~~ It's complicated.
Marxismball - Hates landlords, but doesn't properly distinguish between land and capital. Also called me Capitalismball's last ditch.
Anarcho-Syndicalismball - Extremist, but I like the cat symbol.
Agrarianismball - Old granny (wrongly) thinks farmland has high land value, and thus generally opposes LVT.

Enemies

Anarcho-Capitalismball - Doesn't understand anything about LVT. Thinks owning and speculating in land is a vital productive service.
Marxism-Leninismball - Leave my labor and capital alone!
Conservatismball - Defender of rich landed interest.
Reactionaryball - Even worse than Conservatismball

Mortal Enemies

Hoppeanismball - Literally everything I hate and more.

Further Info

Books

Books from Henry George

Books from other authors

A Great Iniquity (1905) by Leo Tolstoy

Wikipedia

Videos

Short (less than 10 minutes)

Georgism 101 by BritMonkey
What is Georgism? by the Political Sextant
Georgism's One Tax Rule by RT
How Georgism can fix the broken tax system by Nikolaj and Simon Talks

Long (More than 10 minutes)

Online Communities

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