To be precise, I favor taxing only aggression: monopolizing, consuming, polluting, or congesting the commons. If you're a non-aggressor, and thus do not violate the Lockean proviso to leave "as much and as good", then you should not be taxed.
More details at http://ecolibertarian.org/manifesto
The idea of taxing site value is not original to me. Advocates and sympathizers of such a tax include:
Political Theorists
- Adam Smith
- Thomas Jefferson
- Tom Paine
- William Penn
- Ben Franklin
- Frederic Bastiat
- John Stuart Mill
- David Ricardo
- Henry George
- John Locke
- William Lloyd Garrison
- John Dewey
- Lysander Spooner
- Benjamin Tucker
- Robert LeFevre
- Frank Chodorov
- Albert J. Nock
Academic Economists
- Milton Friedman
- James Buchanan
- Robert Solow
- Fred Foldvary
- Franco Modigliani
- Paul Samuelson
- Herbert Simon
- James Tobin
- William Vickrey
- Tyler Cowan
Libertarians
- David Nolan (AZ) - founder of the LP
- "What kind of taxation is least harmful?….My own preference is for a single tax on land, with landholders doing their own valuation."
- John Hospers (CA) - first LP presidential nominee (1972)
- Karl Hess - LP News editor, 1986-1990
- Russell Means - runner-up for 1988 LP presidential nomination, losing by 3 votes to Ron Paul
- Steve Dasbach (VA) - former Chair, LPUS; member of multiple LPUS Platform Committees
- Fred Foldvary (CA) - geolibertarian economist, 2000 LP candidate for Congress
- Carl Milsted (NC) - LNC member c. 2002
- Dan Sullivan (PA) - past chair, LP of Allegheny County
- Lorenzo Gaztanaga (MD) - LPMD Chair c. 1994; LNC member c. 2002
- Lois Kaneshiki (PA) - LPPA Chair and LNC member, c. 2002
- Wayne Parker (MS) - LPLA Chair c. 1996; LPMS ex-Chair; 2002 LP candidate for Congress MS-4
- Paul Gagnon (VA) - founder, LP of Fairfax County
- Henry Haller (PA) - multiple LPUS Platform Committees
- Mik Robertson (PA) - 2006 LPUS Platform Committee
- Guy McLendon (TX) - 2006,2008 LPUS Platform Committee
- Brian Holtz (CA) - 2006,2008 LPUS Platform Committee
- Robert Capozzi - 2008 LPUS Platform Committee
- Starchild - former Chair, LP of San Francisco
- Ron Rosenberger (PA) - 1998 LP candidate for PA Senate
- Chris Toto (NJ) - former chair, LP of Mercer County
