The Single Tax Party started as the Land Value Tax Party in 1910 and was renamed the Commonwealth Land Party for the presidential campaign of 1924.
[ Its ]single-issue
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Political expression
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platform was based on the free-market
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tax reform
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principles defined and popularized by American political economist
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and public intellectual Henry George
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, the ideology now called Georgism
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, which proposed a single tax
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based on the value of land.
Presidential tickets
* 1920
**President - Robert C. Macauley
**Vice-president - Carrie Chapman Catt
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* 1924
**President - William J. Wallace
**Vice-president - John C. Lincoln
See also
* Geolibertarianism
Geolibertarianism is a political and economic ideology that integrates libertarianism with Georgism. It favors a taxation system based (as in Georgism) on income derived from land and natural resources instead of on labor, coupled with a mini ...
* Georgism
Georgism, also called in modern times Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that, although people should own the value they produce themselves, the economic rent derived from land—includi ...
* Land value tax
A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land (economics), land without regard to buildings, personal property and other land improvement, improvements. It is also known as a location value tax, a point valuation tax, a site valuation ta ...
(in the 1920s better known as the "single tax
A single tax is a system of taxation based mainly or exclusively on one tax, typically chosen for its special properties, often being a tax on land value. The idea of a single tax on land values was proposed independently by John Locke and Bar ...
")
* Tax reform
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* Tax shift Tax shift or Tax swap is a change in taxation that eliminates or reduces one or several taxes and establishes or increases others while keeping the overall revenue the same. The term can refer to desired shifts, such as towards Pigovian taxes (typi ...
* Third party (United States)
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Third parti ...
References
External links
1924 Commonwealth Land Party platform
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