Land slavery exists for those who are landless

If we are landless we are a slave to those with land. If we have no land we have no independent means to get food and so we are a slave to (we must work for) those with land. Everyone is a land slave unless we have sufficient land to grow our own food.

Land is not infinite and so it is something which must be shared

We must make accommodation for the finite size of the planet

Someone is a criminal if they do not leave enough land for others

It’s bad not to have a land tax

It is good if rich people are encouraged to give away their land.


If someone has an excess of natural property to the detriment of others than a land tax will encourage them to give up some of their land. If we can avoid having to pay a tax by giving our land to those who need it we are encouraged to be generous.

A Land Value Tax would make it more difficult to own an excess of land

Without a Land Value Tax or something similar to it, there is a risk that the land might become consolidated in the hands of fewer and fewer people.

The government is the owner of the land

The only legitimate function of a government is to allocate land rights, which can be done by seizing the land from those with an excess. But this type of action is not the action of a government which seeks to act in the place of the populace, to seize land is adversarial. It (such an agency) would need to be a defensive agency reclaiming land.