But you said that everyone should have equal access to land and resources – this is an extreme point of view. At that level it isn’t even a matter of social justice anymore, it becomes an issue of enforced “equality”.

If you read around this blog you would see that we, and most other economists, believe that given current abundance we should work for a “minimum living standard” for people. There is a whole spectrum of social justice points of view between anarchy and the enforced equality that I felt you were saying would be the way to go.

Not agreeing with what you have put forward doesn’t make me a republican – New Zealander’s are a lot more liberal than any of the US political parties (in the UK definition of the word). Furthermore, you call my world view simple – but I can’t imagine a simpler world view than one that states everyone should have an equal amount of land and resources irrespective of effort and desire.

moving away from the income tax and towards a LVT and sales tax is a convenience to move the nation in the right direction, bringing agrarian justice for all.

take a 3rd world country with no economy. the people will be used as nike slave labor until they get some agrarian justice.

Hmmm there are a couple of issues here:

1) people all value land and natural resources differently
2) people who want to invest to create value need would be restricted in a such a sense.

Ultimately, I understand the desire for equality of opportunity – however, at that level there is a large trade-off between strict opportunity and wealth creation methinks.

Hmmm. The Greens love international issues. I actually like the idea of a focus on international issues, but I don’t think it is at all in our countries best interest to look a things that way 😛

And now they’re discussing the Tobin Tax again…to discourage currency speculation and kinda-sorta as a means of increasing aid budgets.