Declaration of Principles |
Argentine Georgist Confederation |
[Adopted at a convention held at the Assembly Hall of the Faculity
of Economic Science, University of Buenos Aires, 25-27 May 1929]
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1. All men are endowed by natural law with the right
to the use of the earth and its natural resources, neither of
which can in justice be made the subject of private
ownership.
2. Social life and activities produce from the land
a rent, which belongs integrally to the community and
which constitutes its legitimate revenue for the maintenance
of public services.
3. Only the product of labor, whether it be labor itself
or capital, accumulated labor, can legitimately be private
property. It must not be burdened by any fiscal tax.
Free trade is, therefore, in international relationships the
application of this principle.
4. Industries which are a public utility and by nature
intrinsically a monopoly, must be socialized.
5. The political administrative methods and procedure
which tend to fix the amount of the tax or contribution,
the juridical position of the land as a consequence of the
absorption of the rent, the amount of same, the
evaluation and adjudication of the land to private individuals,
the distribution of the rent amongst the various fiscal
departments, the periodicity of rent determination, the
transformation of the state mechanism and the methods
of absorbing the rent, .... are questions already
studied and determined by Georgists, but which, since
they are matters of practical politics, must be considered
at the opportune moment by those who are to carry out
the Georgist reforms in a fiscal and social field.
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