Welfare payments are a compensation for being landless.
Access to land is a natural right, and if we have been denied this right by others, then we are owed a debt and they (the landowners, in aggregate and those who arrange land rights) are responsible.
A remedy for the current arrangement of land inequality is the Land Value Tax, which discourages land ownership. We have a right to own our own land...
And since we have a right to own land, would it make sense for the Government to control a large portion of land and use the rent to pay citizens a dividend for this fact? The Government leases the land and with the income pays the money to the landless. If we have no land we are owed compensation from the Government.
If the Government is unable to establish that an individual has a sufficient quantity of land, the citizen is due a (perpetual, for as long as they are landless) payment in compensation. We are owed compensation for being landless.
We have a right to compensation for being without land, when others have easily sufficient land and resources are not scarce.
Sunday, 31 January 2010
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