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Georgism
Single Tax · 1879– · United States · Liberal · Doctrine / school · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Land value is created by the community, so its rent belongs to the community; all other taxes should be abolished.
Economic model
Free markets and free trade financed entirely by a tax on unimproved land value.
Organisation of powers
Ordinary democratic government with a single revenue instrument.
Reading note
Systematically unplaceable on a one-dimensional scale, which is a substantial part of why it disappeared from the debate.
Check a claim about Georgism. The interactive atlas measures the distance between any two organisations across all six axes and shows which ones carry the disagreement.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +04
Coded +4: free markets financed entirely by a tax on land value.
- Programme textProgress and Poverty (1879) proposes abolishing all taxes except the one on unimproved land value.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −03
Coded −3: no distinctive cultural programme beyond anti-privilege.
- Programme textThe argument is framed as removing an unearned claim, not as reordering social life.
AU · Organisation of power · scored −04
Coded −4: ordinary democratic government with a single revenue instrument.
- Programme textThe proposal reduces the fiscal apparatus rather than expanding administrative power.
SC · Scale of decision · scored −02
Coded −2: collection at the level where land lies.
- ScholarshipLand value assessment is inherently local while the principle is universal.
ID · Rule of membership · scored −05
Coded −5: free trade and free movement follow from the doctrine.
- Documented act or statuteGeorge campaigned for free trade and against exclusion acts.
CH · Method and tempo · scored −06
Coded −6: a single legislative change, pursued electorally.
- Documented act or statuteGeorge ran for mayor of New York in 1886 and came second, ahead of Theodore Roosevelt.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
- Nepali Congress4.8
- Free Democratic Party5.3
- Liberal Democrats5.9
- Semilla6.5
- Social Liberalism6.6
- Classical Liberalism6.6
Countries
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