Really? You tend your land with love because you're scared?


To continue with my reverie, imagine a world with millions of small landowners instead of a few big ones. To make it pay you'd have to use your land intensively. Think of the diversity replacing the tedious sameness of huge holdings. No more barley prairies. You would have to improve the soil and replant hedgerows to provide shelter. You would have that incentive. You'd have to use real skills instead of driving a tractor all day, inhaling dust laced with pesticides and getting fat through boredom and inactivity. No investing in land, no speculation. And you can't hide your land. You can't put it in an offshore account or pretend you haven't got it or get an accountant to prove that you have a lot less than you really have, unlike money. And the tax raised on excessive land holdings would drastically reduce the tax burden on working people. Sanity restored: the incentive to make your land pay, an end to the tax burden disincentive of going to work. No more taxing people's hard work. And an end to landlords, the biggest sharks on planet Earth. They'd offload their holdings like they were dropping hot potatoes. Blimey, I'm getting carried away here!