Love this picture because you can’t tell if it’s a navel blockade or tariff enforcement

The Henry George was right about most things

Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do. Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons -Henry George

Tariffs won't protect industry. They'll only ensure that it'll be uncompetitive when exposed to competition...and in a society where there's votes to be found in lowering prices, industry will eventually be exposed to competition. I'm for a sensible industrial policy, and so I'm against tariffs.

There is something in the very word “protection” that ought to make workingmen cautious of accepting anything presented to them under it. The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny⎯the plea of monarchy, or aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. -H George

"The original deeds were written with the sword, rather than with the pen: not lawyers, but soldiers, were the conveyancers: blows were the current coin given in payment; and for seals, blood was used in preference to wax. Could valid claims be thus constituted? Hardly." H. Spencer

How is it possible for them to be privileged with high incomes due to their high levels of human capital and yet not have enough spending power to rent homes on their own? Where could the money be going? Guess we'll never know

"If we ever again have a foreign war it will be of our own making. And too strong to fear aggression, we ought to be too just to commit it" -Henry George

The wag who started the "forty acres and a mule" idea among the black people of the South was a wise fool; wise in that he enunciated a principle which every argument of sound policy should have dictated...a fool because he designed simply to impose upon the credulity and ignorance of his victims.

For instance, the decline of civilization as manifested in government would not take us back from republicanism to constitutional monarchy, and thence to the feudal system; it would take us to imperatorship and anarchy. -Henry George, Progress and Poverty

What if we could tax larger estates fairly but without having to define a particular cutoff point? Might there be a tool for that?

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Paying income taxes: an hours long ordeal involving 8 different pieces of Mail, an excel spreadsheet, and fear of arrest Paying property taxes: click a website. Type 23 numbers. Click ‘okay’. This Is The Way, people

The state goal of ICE is to end all the benefits Henry George identified from trade

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge... men in one place have been enabled not only to obtain the products, but to profit by the observations, discoveries and inventions of men in other places. -HG, Protection or Free Trade

Pretty good illustration that the problem with trailers (which seems to have whooshed over the meme maker's head) is that they often have no foundation and the reason they have no foundation is that they don't come with land - which is the part of the 'house' package that appreciates in value

"Protective tariffs make more work, in the sense in which the spilling of grease over her kitchen floor makes more work for the housewife, or as a rain that wets his hay makes more work for the farmer" -Henry George, Protection or Free Trade

Of course the idea of onshoring industries using robotics defeats the ostensible purpose of onshoring industries to bring back manufacturing jobs

Once in the late 1800s five Congressmen read the entirety of Protection or Free Trade into the Congressional Record and a repeat of the endeavor couldn't come at a better time

Once in the late 1800s five Congressmen read the entirety of Protection or Free Trade into the Congressional Record and a repeat of the endeavor couldn't come at a better time

Anon, I know just the book for you

Happy St Patrick's Day - have a great time but remember that in the US the day is inseparable from famine commemorations, and the famine is inseparable from landlordism

Indeed - George concluded "How could there fail to be pauperism and famine in a country where rack-rents wrested from the cultivator of the soil all the produce of his labor except just enough to maintain life in good seasons... under conditions which deprive them of hope?"

"The Irish famine was not a true famine arising from scarcity of food. It was what an English writer styled the Indian famine⎯a “financial famine,” arising not from scarcity of food but from the poverty of the people" -HG, "The Land Question"

Ask not for Ireland mere charity or sympathy. Let her call be the call of fraternity: “For yourselves, O brothers, as well as for us!” Let her rallying cry awake all who slumber, and rouse to a common struggle all who are oppressed... let it ring and echo with the new hope! -HG

"We maintain a tariff for the avowed purpose of keeping out the products of cheap foreign labor; yet machines are daily invented that produce goods cheaper than the cheapest foreign labor...the only consistent protectionism ...would forbid the introduction of laborsaving machinery" -Henry George

Georgists spend most of their time talking about land tax policies but opposition to tariffs has long been a Georgist policy, and it's not incidental to the philosophy schalkenbach.org/why-do-georg...

"We maintain a tariff for the avowed purpose of keeping out the products of cheap foreign labor; yet machines are daily invented that produce goods cheaper than the cheapest foreign labor...the only consistent protectionism ...would forbid the introduction of laborsaving machinery" -Henry George

"See great estates growing and multiplying...Is it any wonder that faith in democratic republicanism is weakening, that all the evils that our fathers thought of as belonging only to “the effete monarchies of the old world” are appearing here?" -HG

"Taxation must not repress industry. It must not check commerce. It must not punish thrift. It must offer no impediment to the largest production and the fairest division of wealth." -HG

"To the extent that road usage rights represent rights to the use of a land related resource, the taxation of that right is completely in line with George's prescription for land related taxation" -Sock-Yong Phang ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcont...

"If all men are Brothers, and are equally precious in the sight of God, the equal right of all men to a portion of the earth at once becomes manifest." -Frederick Douglass. Read more here: paulcrider.substack.com/p/frederick-...

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Similarly, homeownership is not necessary for the good life- merely security in renting. Tenants' rights > mass homeownership

"...it does not take a sage to see that what is required for the improvement of land is not absolute ownership of the land, but security for the improvements." -Henry George

"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." -Henry George, "Protection or Free Trade?"

"...to the man who realizes that it is given to him to work for the coming of God’s kingdom on earth, there is an exceedingly great reward of feeling that he, little and insignificant though he may be, is doing something on the side of that good power that shows all through the universe" -HG

"...free trade no more originated in Great Britain than did the habit of walking on the feet. Free trade is the natural trade⎯the trade that goes on in the absence of artificial restrictions. It is protection that had to be invented" -HG

The intelligence required for the solving of social problems is not a mere thing of the intellect. It must be animated with the religious sentiment and warm with sympathy for human suffering. It must stretch out beyond self-interest, whether it be the self-interest of the few or the many. -HG

"...you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You begin to ask the question, “Who owns the iron ore?” You begin to ask the question, “Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that’s two-thirds water?” These are words that must be said." -MLK, 'Where Do We Go From Here?"

"America freed the slaves...but gave the slaves no land to get started on. At the same time, America was giving away millions of acres of land...to give the white peasants form Europe an economic base, and yet it refused to give its Black peasants any kind of economic base" -MLK, 1967 (minute 15:30)

plantations should’ve been. divided up. and given to the people who worked them

Happy Martin Luther King Day.

"...you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You begin to ask the question, “Who owns the iron ore?” You begin to ask the question, “Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that’s two-thirds water?” These are words that must be said." -MLK, 'Where Do We Go From Here?"

"America freed the slaves...but gave the slaves no land to get started on. At the same time, America was giving away millions of acres of land...to give the white peasants form Europe an economic base, and yet it refused to give its Black peasants any kind of economic base" -MLK, 1967 (minute 15:30)

"Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each; it binds all closer and closer together in bonds from which none can escape." -HG

It turns out there were lots of 'Freedom from Want' posters, not just the famous Rockwell one. This one probably goes the hardest - possibly too hard though if we're being honest, which is why I didn't pick it

"It is given to men to struggle for the kingdom of justice and righteousness. It is given to men to work and to hope for and to bring on that day of which the prophets have told and the seers have dreamed; that day in which involuntary poverty shall be utterly abolished." -HG