Please consider these questions:

1. Where do land and natural resources come from?

2. How much does it cost to make land and natural resources?

3. Who made land and natural resources?

4. Who uses land and natural resources?

5. Who benefits most from land and natural resources being used?

6. If the wealth of land and natural resources  were to be shared by all - who would benefit most?

7. If the wealth of land and natural resources were to be shared by all - who would lose most?

1. Where do land and natural resources come from?

Land and natural resources are a natural part of our planet.

Reflect on the fact that our planet is a small spec in the universe comparable to one grain of sand in a desert full of grains of sand.

2. How much does it cost to make land and natural resources?

Nothing.

Mankind has to expend no labour and employ no capital to make land.

Scientists currently suggest that “The Big Bang” created our universe and eventually our little planet – long before mankind emerged from the African bush.

3. Who made land and natural resources?

Maybe you believe a Deity created our planet - but certainly no landowner has made land nor natural resources.

4. Who uses land and natural resources?

Manufacturers, commercial concerns, individuals, families, charities, schools, hospitals, farmers etc. - in fact all of us living on this planet need to use land and natural resources to survive.

5. Who benefits most from land and natural resources being used?

Anyone who can charge us a regular fee or a lump sum for us to be allowed to use land. i.e. LANDOWNERS who charge us rent or sell us a freehold just to be allowed to survive on our planet which is provided free, surely for all to enjoy.

6. If the wealth of land and natural resources were to be shared by all - who would benefit the most?

Everybody!

7. If the wealth of land and natural resources were to be shared by all - who would lose the most?

Landowners!

Consequently,  whenever the concept of an annual Land Value Tax has been proposed the landowners have been the first to oppose it.

Sometimes their opposition has been overt – like forming the Country Landowners’ Association in the early 1900s to oppose Lloyd George’s Land Tax budgets sometimes their opposition has been more secretive by using their wealth to  influence the media and academia to confuse the general public and economic students regarding land’s role in creating man-made wealth and how that wealth should be distributed.