Ian Pitchford

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That means that a tax on the revenues from that good (in other words the ‘economic rents’ from it) will not reduce its supply. As a result, such taxes are relatively efficient—they don’t distort incentives or activities. The nineteenth-century economist Henry George took this insight and argued that we should have just a single tax, a land tax.
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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