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.[1] Its single-issue platform was based on the free-market tax reform principles defined and popularized by American political economist and public intellectual Henry George, the ideology now called Georgism, which proposed a single tax based on the value of land.[2]
Presidential tickets
edit- 1920
- President - Robert C. Macauley
- Vice-president - Carrie Chapman Catt
- 1924
- President - William J. Wallace
- Vice-president - John C. Lincoln[3]
See also
edit- Geolibertarianism
- Georgism
- Land value tax (in the 1920s better known as the "single tax")
- Tax reform
- Tax shift
- Third party (United States)
References
edit- ^ Darcy G. Richardson (2008), Others: Fighting Bob La Follette and the Progressive Movement: Third-party Politics in the 1920s, pp. 36–38, 224, 232–233, ISBN 9780595481262
- ^ "Single Tax". Time magazine. February 18, 1924. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
A National Convention of the great Presidential year of 1924 was held in Manhattan. Before the Convention, the name of the Party was the Single Tax Party. After the Convention it was the Commonwealth Land Party. But the change was only a change of name.
- ^ "School of Cooperative Individualism / Biographical History of the Georgist Movement - United States - C continued". Archived from the original on 2009-07-15. Retrieved 2009-06-06.