Sunday 3 January 2010

The State should seize land from those who already have easily enough

The poor care about property, not income, and the Government is doing little to nothing to solve this problem.

The Government could reallocate property that has been accumulated by the rentier, landlord class and place it in the hands of the State (as social housing) and later disperse it into the private sector by selling it to the occupants.


The Government do not care about poor people because it is not in their interests to do so. The members of the Government care about themselves and the people around them, they do not explicitly care about the poor alone, in isolation. Of course, they want fewer poor people and more wealth but they do not have the instinctive drive; it is an intellectual desire.

The people that will make life easier for the poor, if anyone, will be friends relations, or people that are genuinely motivated to do so. For these people, all they need to get the job done is for the restrictions around them to get out of the way. We all care about the poor. The Government gets in the way of eliminating poverty. Capitalism will eliminate poverty.

The Government prevents people from helping each other.

Poverty is caused by illegitimate authoritarianism, a violation of property rights. Wealth is generated by free markets, including a free market for resources which would eliminate narrow allocation of resources such as land. Ownership is contingent on the consent of others... the poor should be granted access to (given) the land of the wealthy. Each person could be asked to confirm which land (housing) they claim, if nothing then they could be granted the excess belonging to others.

The Government could add the "excess" housing into the housing stock of the State and (have it be) allocated accordingly. Which could then be sold off to the occupants under a "right to buy" scheme...

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