The Single Tax Party started as the Land Value Tax Party in 1910 and was renamed the Commonwealth Land Party for the presidential campaign of 1924.
[ Its ]single-issue
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Political expression
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platform was based on the tax reform
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principles defined and popularized by American political economist
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and public intellectual Henry George
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, the ideology
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now called Georgism
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, which proposed a single tax
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Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban were ear ...
based on the value of land.
Presidential tickets
* 1920
**President - Robert C. Macauley
**Vice-president - Carrie Chapman Catt
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* 1924
**President - William J. Wallace
**Vice-president - John C. Lincoln
See also
* Geolibertarianism
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* Georgism
Georgism, in modern times also called Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—includ ...
* Land value tax
A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land (economics), land without regard to buildings, personal property and other land improvement, improvements upon it. Some economists favor LVT, arguing it does not cause economic efficiency, ec ...
(in the 1920s better known as the "single tax
A single tax is a system of taxation based mainly or exclusively on one tax, typically chosen for its special properties, often being a tax on land value.
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban were ear ...
")
* Tax reform
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* Tax shift
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* Third party (United States)
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References
External links
1924 Commonwealth Land Party platform
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