Re: Theories of underdevelopment

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From: royls
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:03

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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 22:19:50 -0400, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:

>royls@telus.net wrote:
> 
>> You tax the value the property would have if the vertical condominium
>> were not there.
>
>If there were a law of nature that determined economic values, you might 
>have a point.

I have a point -- in fact, I am right -- even though there is no such
law.

>But no such law exists. Values are the result of choices 
>and trade offs and cannot be determined a priori.

No one claimed to be determining them a priori.

The lying morons who take it upon themselves to defend the injustice
of landowner privilege _always_ trot out the idiotic notion that land
value is somehow different from everything else in the world, and
cannot be measured.  It's just false, stupid and dishonest.  In fact,
the attempt to use this "argument" is almost a litmus test for
identifying dishonest, evil individuals, like their insistence that
slave owners should have been compensated for the loss of their unjust
privileges when slaves were freed, but the slaves were rightly not
compensated for the systematic violation of their rights.

That _is_ your view of the matter, isn't it, Bob?

-- Roy L

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