By Mark Wadsworth (Posthumous)
and Scott Baker (Editor)
The late Mark Wadsworth from the U.K. quietly amassed what is perhaps the best compendium or index of arguments against LVT on the internet…and then wrote articles to refute all of them. The main categories are labeled from A – Z. Did Wadsworth just run out of letters? No, there are half a dozen to a dozen subcategories under each lettered heading!
It’s unclear how long this blog will be maintained by successors, but take a look. Even seasoned Georgists will have a hard time finding anti-Georgist arguments that Wadsworth hasn’t already refuted.
The intro begins:
Index
I have seen hundreds of supposed killer arguments against LVT over the years. most of them revolve around Poor Widows In Mansions, the Army Of Surveyors and the misconception that land values represent wealth, but there are plenty of others.
None of them stand up to closer scrutiny and a lot of them are not only inherently false but contradict each other and thus cancel each other out. It’s difficult to put them into logical order as they are not logical, but they can still be grouped under some main headings, the arguments against depend largely who is making them.
I wrote the bulk of this ‘blog in January 2013, with a major update in 2017. It will never be complete, there will always be new killer arguments to be debunked, calculations and links to be checked and updated, but I think I’ve covered 99% of it in reasonable depth.
See the rest here: