Ron Paul believes in the feudalism of the land barons and gold bankers of King George. Ron Paul believes land and money are capital. Land and money are not capital. They are the common wealth. They are the unearned wealth of law-made property, not the earned wealth of labor-made property. To declare any free market currency or commodity to be legal tender is state intervention and a corruption of free markets. Title to land is state intervention and corruption of free markets. The Bible and the classical liberals understand this distinction. Ron Paul does not make this distinction. Ron Paul wants government to allow the banks and land barons to steal the common wealth. Ron Paul does not distinguish between earned wealth and wealth stolen through economic rent and monetary interest.
My article exposing Ron Paul as a globalist seeking the old world’s one world currency is getting a lot of traffic. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of people on forums discussing the article still have not awakened to the importance of the Endgame Ron Paul represents on the Grand Chessboard of the Red Symphony.
The awakening to the crimes of the New World Order is being misdirected into the worship of one man, Ron Paul, and into a blind faith of a false economic paradigm of crony capitalism and corruption of free markets of the worst kind by government, the Austrian School of Economics, funded by the same people, the Rockefeller Foundation, who take an active part in the funding and control of the New World Order. What is really dangerous is that it is sold as the opposition to the New World Order and as the opposition to crony capitalism and corruption of free markets by the government when it was funded by the New World Order and when it is crony capitalism and corruption of free markets by the government.
Ron Paul’s various esoteric associations are irrelevant. What is relevant is Ron Paul’s role in herding the stray sheep of politics, upset at the Republicans or Democrats, towards a false paradigm of economics. What is important is how brainwashed, militant, and intellectually dishonest these supporters of Ron Paul are. They resemble fascists, promoting a crony capitalism which resembles a new type of feudalism, while calling themselves defenders of capitalism, free markets, and classical liberalism. They do not listen to what you have to say. They are not there to learn. They are there to beat a drum of free markets and anarchy while at the same time they promote corruption of free markets by the government, without even being aware that is what they are doing. You can’t even crack a joke about Ron Paul without them going ballistic.
Some people defend Ron Paul on the basis that he is a gateway to the proverbial red pill from The Matrix. This is somewhat true. I was a card-carrying member of the Libertarian Party until I left the party in 2001, mostly because I felt it had a brainwashing effect. I was amazed at Ron Paul’s popularity during the 2008 elections. I started to poke around YouTube to find out why he became so popular. What I discovered was people talking about the CFR, 9/11, the New World Order, and Alex Jones.
It was an interesting journey. It took me awhile to come to terms that 9/11 was an inside job. I did not want to believe that it was possible for such to be an inside job. However, the hard science and all the soft evidence indicated it could have been nothing else but controlled demolition. Alex Jones opened me up to a lot of things. After I predicted the collapse of the Dow and the swine flu outbreak, I stopped listening to Alex Jones. I had watched Zeitgeist and Bill Still’s documentary and started to really think about monetary policy. This is when it finally hit me that Ron Paul was a Benedict Arnold.
I realized that Alex Jones was allowed to do what he did because he was herding those awakened to certain things, such as 9/11 being an inside job, towards Ron Paul. Alex Jones was a gate keeper. Ron Paul in his own right is also a gate keeper to herd those who were socially liberal and fiscal conservatives.
I already had intuitive disagreement with the Libertarian Party, specifically the Austrian School of Economics, over monetary policy and over the land issue. Dan Sullivan had awakened me somewhat to these concerns. However, it wasn’t until Bill Still and Alex Jones that I realized the true purpose Ron Paul served for the New World Order.
Anarchy is a foundation for feudalism, where lords lead knights, hold claims to land, and negotiate contracts of slavery and serfdom with the peasants where the serfs gain protection from the land baron while they are allowed to exist to work on the land and pay tributes or rents to the land barons. The land barons were the government, and they were ultimately fascist governments. Anarchy is also a foundation for tribalism, but tribalism tends to be more left-wing than the right-wing feudalism, since land and people are usually not viewed as property under tribalism and since tribal barter systems are more honest.
The system of feudalism developed in Europe when the Roman Empire fell. It should be important to note that the Roman Empire was built on cheap money, bronze and later silver coins, for 240 years, where the value of the money was more than the value of the metal in the coins, and that it started to crumble when Rome abandoned bronze coins and went onto a gold and silver standard in 50BC when the idea of gold as money was started. In 23BC, cheap money of bronze and brass coinage was again monetized but quickly demonetized. It was attempted to monetize bronze coins once again after collapse, but it was too late. This idea of gold as money carried into the Dark Age of feudalism. Feudalism eventually developed into monarchism and eventually once again into the idea of the republic and representative government.
However, along the way, from the Roman Empire to our modern governments, monetary and land issues were often poorly implemented, and the toil of the working classes were often taxed, leading to a crony capitalism at the benefit of the aristocrats, the land owners, the bankers, and other wealthy interests who lived off land rents and interest, despite the common religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam speaking out against the taxation of labor and the profiteering off land rents, interest-bearing money, and financial capital not produced with toil.
The classical liberals and American independence was a big leap forward in trying to address the land issue. It was the early American immigrants, who lived in Europe under the burden of land rents and taxes on their toil paid to land barons and monarchs, who had the lack of access to cheap money to engage in economic trade and pay such taxes, who had to instead borrow expensive money at high rates of interest and volatile value from bankers, who met native populations who did not even believe in money and land ownership, and who were casting off the crony capitalism of monarchism.
All the classical liberals identified land, capital, and labor as the components of production. They identified land as something unique, where the rights to land should be preserved but not the profits off the land. They all believed that land was best to have a tax imposed on it since it was unearned wealth and so that the land would not be monopolized by land barons, making land more affordable for all. The classical liberals respected earned income and did not impose taxation on wages. The classical liberals and the native Americans were your true champions of free markets, the economics of the Bible, and anarchism, where government acted to secure that all had rights to land and their labor, but not the right to profit off land rents through government written and enforced title to land.
While the classical liberals were not successful of casting off interest-bearing money, George Washington did finance the American Revolution with debt-free sovereign money, the Continental. While the colonies had problems with the colonial currencies, the colonies were successful in making use of various forms of cheap currency to pay taxes and engage in trade. Unfortunately, the colonies often relied upon gold to trade with Europe. The Southern colonies even commonly accepted Spanish gold notes for payment of taxes.
The U.S. Constitution did recognize the folly of having several different colony currencies due to commodity-based currencies, like agricultural products, corrupting free markets, money market traders profiteering off deflationary and inflationary currencies, and other problems. The U.S. Constitution limited the States to gold and silver coins while leaving it open for the Congress to issue and regulate the legal tender, whatever the legal tender might be. I believe the classical liberals stuck with gold since it was the one world currency at the time. Europe primarily used gold, and it was necessary to use gold to trade with Europe. They also offered silver as a cheap alternative.
However, this brings up why Ron Paul is so dangerous. Supporters of Ron Paul claim that Ron Paul believes in “free market” currency, not a return to the gold standard, because Ron Paul simply wants the government to interfere in free markets and accept gold and silver for payment of taxes. They suggest that we currently do not have a free market in silver and gold as currency. They suggest that the government must take action to make them “free market” currency. How Orwellian. Ron Paul supporters defy reason and logic.
Libertarianism as promoted by the Austrian School of Economics is the crony capitalism of a return to feudalism. The Austrian School of Economics wants us to repeat the failures of history rather than learn from them. There is a true libertarianism which mirrors true classical liberalism. However, that true libertarianism is not the libertarianism which Ron Paul promotes.
Most Ron Paul supporters believe government is force and is always bad. I did have a discussion with one Ron Paul supporter who admitted that government force is good if it used to enforce free markets. Unfortunately, he believed free markets meant the crony capitalism of Ron Paul, that government should be used to enforce land monopoly and monetary monopoly. Government force is good if it is used to enforce free market principles that labor and capital is your own, that land and the profit of the land is for all, and the public’s legal tender should be debt-free and free of the economic rent and interest of commodities.
The Bible and Antiquity even promotes these free market principles of true capitalism. The Bible promotes a more true capitalism than Ron Paul. Unfortunately, those who state belief in the Bible, such as Ron Paul, reject the principles of economics in the Bible in favor of the Rockefeller Foundation’s economic paradigm of crony capitalism, where land and money are treated like any other capital and where taxation on your toil is justified if done in a flat [regressive] way.
I am agnostic and am aware of the economics of the Bible. Many who claim faith in the Bible are not even aware of the economics of the Bible, other than tithing the church and letting Caesar have his gold. I would say letting Caesar have his gold is a statement against hard currency, but I’m not sure the context makes that implication and is simply making a statement against materialism, as the purpose of tithing is a statement against materialism, to be willing to let go of a portion of your wealth, to have faith in God rather than materialism. The people who believe in the Bible are not aware that the Bible is in favor of the taxation of land values through the 50-year land lease and Jubilee, against the taxation of labor and real capital, and against debt-based money.
There are supporters of Ron Paul who literally want the Anglo-American Empire to fall like the Roman Empire and enter into a new Dark Age. While I agree with them that our current system is corrupt, it is not beyond repair. While I agree that it deserves to fail, failure into a new Dark Age would not make things better. It would only make things worse. We would enter a new age of feudalism. We would repeat history rather than learn from history. We would be paying land rents to land barons, paying land rents and interest on gold to bankers of the land barons, and making tribute payments on our toil to those with the most guns who control land and gold, if we are lucky enough to survive the chaos. I assume that those who control our banking system, their corporations, and their governments, would not allow things to reach that point, as much as they work to repress understanding of true classical liberalism and true libertarianism.
If Ron Paul was elected and the Austrian School of Economics became as mainstream as Keynesian economics, those who control our banking system and their corporations would still be in control. We would repeat history with frequent banking panics, boom/bust cycles, and monetary changes to accommodate a return to a gold standard or some variant of a commodity-based and interest-bearing currency beneficial to bankers and those who profit on debt. They would even call such currency “sound” and “honest” free market money, while gold, silver, and notes of chartered banks are declared legal tender by the government. Even worse, with the Austrian School of Economics equating land and money to capital, like Marx did, we’d see a return of landed feudalism.
We’d have to watch our public infrastructure be privatized. Our roads would be sold to aristocrats and transnational corporations and transformed into toll roads for a transnational corridor. We, the People, who built the roads, would now have to pay tolls to use them to private corporations. We would see the same with the community hospitals, parks, and other public infrastructure. We already see this happening now.
We’d have to watch the states to get rid of the remaining property taxes that the classical liberals gave us as they implement flat and regressive income taxes and sales taxes to fund governments, directly enslaving us in the worst possible way, especially for the working class and youth. We’d see the wealthy and corporations buy up the land, as they even deduct the buying up of America on their taxes. We would see increased rent and decreased maintenance of housing, since the only tax incentive would be to monopolize the land rather than develop, maintain, and use land efficiently for the demands of the free market.
We’d see prices for gold and silver sky-rocket in price as the government interferes in free markets of gold and silver and free market currencies by accepting them for payment of taxes. We’d see the government become commodity traders under the banner that the government is promoting free markets. We’d see the interest on debts, public and private, increase, with the force of government interfering with free markets, and we will hear that the wealthy bankers and the wealthy are getting richer because the government stayed out of the free market. It is not right for the working class to do all the work and be loaded with more debt than they earn, while the banks have lavish buildings on every street corner and the tallest towers in every city for doing nothing but charging usury upon the public’s money supply while mismanaging and misdirecting the money supply into boom/bust cycles.
We’d continue to see our jobs outsourced and off-shored due to the increased taxation on wages to the point where we will eventually be willing to work in sweat shops for China and India for wages that would barely pay land rents for a slum. We’d see increased poverty for a majority of Americans while a small minority of Americans would see increased prosperity, as we are seeing already.
We’d see another Great Depression, where first by inflation of a cheap debt-based currency and then by the deflation of an expensive commodity and debt-based currency, we’d literally wake up homeless on tax-free land monopolized by the crony capitalists Ron Paul embraced rather than opposed. We would become a pathetic banana republic rather than the republic for and by the people the classical liberals hoped we’d become. The demands for socialism would be greater, not lesser, under Ron Paul’s crony capitalism and various austerity programs.
Ron Paul is exactly what the globalists would want. That is why they funded the Austrian School of Economics. Ron Paul is the Hegelian dialect and a false paradigm that would enable the slavery of the masses, especially if he has dedicated and passionate support behind him, who falsely believe they are repressed and disenfranchised champions of free markets when in reality they are champions of the crony capitalism of King George and his gold bankers and land barons. Even if the media criticizes Ron Paul, often for the wrong reasons, the media is solidifying his support. Bad press is good press for celebrities. It increases their popularity as people try to defend their favorite celebrity.
Our only hope is in educating the masses on true classical liberalism and true libertarianism to reform the system with a populist message of no taxation of toil, no national debt, public debt-free money, and land value taxation. Henry George and the classical progressives had great success in the late 1800s as the classical liberals in 1776 had great success. There is an opportunity for classical progressives to reform our system towards a more robust implementation of classical liberalism.
We do need to break the monopoly the banks have on our government and our economy. We do need to break the monopoly the banks have on our understanding of political economy given to us by them with Austrian School of Economics, Keynesian economics, and Marxism. We would need to break free of the three neoclassical schools of economics which equate land and money to capital and regain a true understanding of classical liberalism and true libertarianism, where land and money are not capital of the free market but unique creatures of the state with unique economic concerns which can be used to fund government, rather than the slavery of taxation on wages and real capital.
The debate, after the national debt is ended with public debt-free legal tender, after wages are untaxed, and after land values are taxed, should be on when capital ceases to be real capital of earned income and when it becomes usury and economic rent of unearned income. The debate should be on whether there should be a public option in insurance or not. The debate should be on how small government should be and how much land rents and monetary value should be returned to the public as a citizen dividend.
The debate should not be about the worship of Ron Paul, the blind faith in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Austrian School of Economics, and the crony capitalism of the Austrian School of Economics, modeled on the crony capitalism of the Old World’s feudalism and sold in an Orwellian way as being the classical liberalism and opposition to crony capitalism. The last thing we need is an ignorant mass in blind worship of a man and in blind faith of his false economic paradigm. Progress towards free and fair markets requires reason. Blind faith leads to a dark age of austerity and crony capitalism.

Indeed Keith, much truth in here.
The sorry thing to see is, that many of the people in support of Paul are of the poorer 50%. Meaning they have zero assets.
Meaning they lose 45% of their income to interest through prices (capital costs incurred by the producer)
These people tow the party line that ‘the binge is over’. ‘Now it’s time to pay’.
But who has been partying? Those poor people with zero assets and three jobs to keep things going?
You have the Peter Schiffs out there with their macho austerity disaster capitalism. All portfolio’s stuffed with the shiny stuff.
Hell, they’ll even claim it’s Jesus’ money, its unbelievable what these guys believe.
Ah well, its evolution, it seems mankind must step in every pitfall he finds on his way.
ya, i find it funny when they blame the poor for “stealing” wealth… as if they should be working harder to fund the military industrial complex and other stuff they most likely would not want to work to support.
i didn’t spend the money. i didn’t even vote for the people who spent the money. congress and the people who voted for the people who won should have to pay the taxes.
i like to throw out that the gold is god’s creation and is willed to all people, and thus, the peter schiffs of the world should have to make rent payments on the gold to all citizens since all citizens have equal natural law claim to the gold.
What I like in particular about your line of reasoning (elsewhere also), and I assume that’s part of Georgism(?), is how it views the rights of those holding wealth: having something does not mean you are entitled to it for ever.
It is indeed true that owning for instance land, but also commodities like Gold, should not last for ever.
Because It hinders the rights of those born after you. Land and Gold are in limited supply and we cannot allow billions of newborns to miss out on their heritage.
Very important stuff. I knew something was fishy here (about property rights), but lacked the intellectual perspective.
It’s crucial. The Money Power monopolizes all and claims it was first and therefore has rights.
Welcome to the world of Classical Liberalism, Georgism, and Biblical Economics — The Lost Understanding of Property Rights and Natural Law.
Money is like land and gold. Money is common wealth. The origination of money should benefit all people, not the banks or gold mine owner.
You have to fix both the land and money problem to fix the economy, to end the dismal nature of economics, to end increasing poverty among progress. If you fix one without fixing the other, the problem of increasing poverty among progress would be worse.
Henry George was not only a fan of land value taxation, he was also a fan of the Greenback.
land values have balooned for the reason the banks own part of your land more than you wholey earn it. Banks intrest can not create curency for any one but the bank. when a bank lends for a $100,000 home they lend $200,000 they really don’t have to lend .. yeah they may of had the $100,000 .. so money is printed to cover the banks profit. If I go to work and make 3 widgets/hour 1 widgets profit goes to bills (heat/ gas/taxes ..ect) 1 widget goes to company profit.. and 1 widget is my profit..But they won’t print money to cover that. So my work and product does not justify printing of money. Maybe I should promise the Fed that if they print $100,000 to cover my home…I will promise to make X# of widgets over 20 years to cover it plus a fee. For handling of the deal.But no intrest. I only borrowed $100,000. when I sell this home the added cost of bank intrest can not be obsorbed by the next widget maker who needs a home to raise his family just to justify the fed printed this cash for the bank.
yes, fixing the monetary issue is as important as fixing the land issue. fixing one without fixing the other would make the other worse. another blogger whose focus is on an interest-free money system points out that one is paying $300k in interest for a $200K home mortgage. $170k is development with about $30k as land value. the $270k for the cost of the home is justified. the cost of land is $30k while the cost of interest is $300k for a home. neither is justified and interest increases the cost of living 10x that of the cost of land, though the cost of the land would probably be much higher without either land value taxation or property taxation. if the land issue is addressed but the monetary issue is not addressed, you’d still have a boom/bust cycle with credit expansion being attracted towards development of highly demanded land, placing higher demand on credit, driving up the cost interest. if the monetary issue is fixed by the land issue is not fixed, you’d have a real estate boom/bust as the interest-free money would dramatically increase demand for land until nobody but the wealthy could afford it, leading to an eventual crash in prices or the increasing cost of rent collected by the wealthy.
that is the problem with debt-based and commodity-based money. that is why sovereign debt-free money is so important. that is why usury is so bad and why inflation would be an ideal progressive tax on usury.
Wow – this guy is like barking mad.
You lost me after you accused Paul of wanting to legalize gold so that he would make money on his gold holdings. Ridiculous, if he wanted to make corrupt money he would just jump on the Federal Government’s gravy strain like every other politician. No one becomes an MD because they are greedy for money, no one rejects earmarks and lobbyists if they are greedy. This is just an attempt at character defamation.
you need to lay off the pot. i never even used the word “legalize” in the article. you’re thinking about legalizing your favorite weed, not your favorite rock, gold.
i did NOT say ron paul wants to legalize gold. gold is already legalized to buy, sell, and hold, as a free market currency, commodity used to produce goods, speculative investment, and volatile store of wealth. i said ron paul wants gold to be LEGAL TENDER, which is money used for payment of taxes and debts (public debts and private debts at banks chartered by government) with the government declaring gold to be legal tender being state intervention in free market currencies, commodity markets used to produce goods, speculative investments, and volatile stores of wealth, for the purpose of creating artificial demand for such as to increase the value artificially of ron paul’s gold holdings.
of course i’m trying to discredit ron paul for being a hypocrite and scam artist. it seems ron paul is quite smart because he was able to fool you into buying into his scam to make his gold and land holdings worth more while you get high on pot.
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You are very shallow minded and ignorant. You’re facts are all over the place and on many occassions wrong. Rockerfeller funding austrian economics?? hahaha
I understand that Ron Paul may lead to the demise of America as the most influential country in the world, but this is what needs to be done for the betterment of man kind. We need to move away from big governments to smaller and smaller governments till we finally know how to take care of ourselves not within the context of SOCIALISM OR FACISM OR COMMUNISM OIR CAPITALISM but as a race of humans.
I don’t agree with Ron Paul because he still promotes capitalism, the use of money and ultimately inequality. But this is the step we have to take to move towards a change. Unfortunately it begins with the destruction of America.
The Rockefeller Foundation funded Ludwig von Mises. The Ludwig von Mises Institute, the Rothbard biography of Ludwig von Mises admits this, and other biographies of Ludwig von Mises admit this.
The fall of the Roman Empire led to monarchism and feudalism, which is fascism and socialism for the rich. The gold dollar increased in value during the Great Depression and was the primary cause of the Great Depression. That led to the welfare state.
The system before 1873 was a usurious fractional reserve banking system, though it had some inexpensive options in silver, Continentals, and Greenbacks. The system between 1873 and 1933 was a usurious fractional banking system and required expensive gold. After 1933 we’ve had a usurious fractional and fictional reserve banking system. I believe in the monetary system, free of usury and free of commodities, which won the American Revolution (Continentals) and which won the American Civil War (Greenbacks).
The feudalism Ron Paul promotes in regards to money and land is the opposite of sound and honest free markets.
I promote the end of income taxation, the end of national debt, and the end of state-granted privilege to profit on state-granted title to land and monetary origination. I promote the ideas of the Free Soil Party: free land [of economic rent], free labor [of taxation], free trade [of taxation], free speech, and free men [without their toil taxed or stolen through state-granted privilege of economic rent, an expensive hard legal tender, or a usury-ridden legal tender of a fractional or fictional reserve banking system].
I also hold other Real Libertarian beliefs. I’m against regulation designed to put small business out of business and for regulations in regards to land and usury. I believe in the usual Libertarian foreign policy. I am also against ineffective welfare programs and the nanny state. I believe in economic justice with a citizen dividend funded with land rents as the universal and flat social program, like Milton Friedman. I promote smaller government, but I promote such in intelligent ways which promotes freedom and diminishes tyranny.
Keith, great article. I like a lot, and agree with a lot of what you have to say. and this is coming from a Ron Paul supporter. I think you’re a little off on the character assassination stuff and his motives, but the case against a gold standard is definitely fair and reasonable. However, I have a question and it has nothing to do with Ron Paul or gold. with respect to land and land ownership, you say land is part of the “common wealth” and I understand the premise since, of course, land is not something man-made. but are you trying to say that we shouldn’t own land and property? do we not have the right to buy a house and the land on which it stands, and then hold onto or sell that property as we wish? or am I missing your meaning?
let me see if I can answer my own question, as I’ve been doing some research. as I understand it, the georgist believes that land is part of the common wealth, and as such a tax or rent should be paid for use of that land, but that ownership of the land remains part of the common wealth. however, improvements on that land, be it a house, a farm, etc. is not part of the common wealth and is not taxed as that is the toil of one’s labor. so I can own a house, and would not pay taxes on the physical structure that is my house, but would pay taxes on the land on which my house sits. in other words, I don’t own the land but I own the house. is this correct, wrong, overly simplistic?
Tom,
You would still own the land, you would just pay society the rental value of the land for your exclusive government protected control of the land.
exactly
If you pay rent for the land under your feet, you are a serf, a slave. There is no argument around this. You may not exist without forking over the proceeds of your labor. A property tax is an income tax by default, and a more insidious one at that. At least if my land is not taxed, I do not have to go “get income”. I can merely sustain my life on my land. I don’t know how you can say you want the end of rent in one post and then say you want rent in another post. This is doublethink. Changing the label on the rent doesn’t change this.
You cannot have a free market if there is a coercive government (which is a necessity for taxes, and vice versa). Government will require taxation. Whatever currency the taxation occurs in will be a de facto legal tender. To collect taxes, you must have government jackboots. Which will require more taxes. You must have a place to place non-payers. This will require a prison industrial complex. And on it goes. I’m really failing to see a difference between what is proscribed in these pages and what already exists, minus Goldman Sachs.
Trying to use the Torah as a justification for a tax is beyond a stretch. While I think the economic advice in Torah for dealing with land and debt is outstanding, nothing in it involves a government or taxes. People agreed on boundaries, and the land stayed in the families. You could sell the production of the land, but not the land, because the land belonged to your family. Not “society”. Not “the commonwealth”. And your family wasn’t taxing it all the while. (Lev 25) Vastly different.
Austrian Economics did not originate with Mises, It originated with men like Menger and Bohm von Bawerk, which quite predate the Rockefeller Foundation. It also is certainly not a homogeneous suite, as there is disagreement over different aspects within the school.
All that said, the current system is completely corrupt, and a “gold standard” wouldn’t fix it anymore than any other government intervention does. I would say Ron Paul never went far enough, but then again you can’t be an anarchist and still get voted into a political office.
the citizen dividend is key to understanding how lvt is different. if the rent is collected and distributed equally to everyone, everyone becomes equal shareholders and everyone would be able to get the value of their share of the planet without having to pay rent. the land owner pays rent to the citizens rather than the other way around. corporations would receive no citizen dividend. corporations would have to rent the land from the citizens. something that would surely fix the whole problem of the banana republic. a person wouldn’t have to slave in a nike workshop if nike had to pay rent to the citizens to have their factory in their republic. it is also key to understand the law of rent. full lvt would drive the cost of rent down. great amounts of land would become virtually free as desired land is used more efficiently. it isn’t a contradiction, just a little more complicated than one would wish. a good education teaches us that nothing is really simple. there is more to things. we have a complicated thing… land… and this complicated matter of property rights vs. natural rights. we ultimately have to share the planet and design a system compatible with natural rights and property rights. there is coercion when we institute any kind of state to govern the use and ownership of land, whether it is an anarcho/tribal system where the gun sets boundaries or a republic.