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Smashingpmkns posted...

You didn't read the article lol

The inspiration began with a book that her father, the anti-monopolist politician James Magie, had handed to her. In the pages of Henry Georges classic, Progress and Poverty (1879), she encountered his conviction that the equal right of all men to use the land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence.

Travelling around America in the 1870s, George had witnessed persistent destitution amid growing wealth, and he believed it was largely the inequity of land ownership that bound these two forces poverty and progress together. So instead of following Twain by encouraging his fellow citizens to buy land, he called on the state to tax it.

Georgist are explicitly pro-capitalism. We just think there are better forms of taxation than income and investment.