ABSTRACT
The land question lies at the root of the social and economic questions with which the Government is pledged to deal. The land question cannot be solved, indeed no real approach can be made towards its solution, without a national record of true land value, and the levy of taxation on that value. The Taxation of Land Values will secure for the public a part of those values which the public itself creates. It will bring an extension of freedom, freedom to produce as well as to exchange, an elimination of those conditions which at present restrict opportunities to work and close the avenues of wealth, enrich the few at the expense of the many, and cause injustice and obstruction in the industrial system. The Taxation of Land Values, by opening up fresh opportunities for the profitable expenditure of labour and capital, will tend to bring fresh chances to all of earning their livelihood.
