In response to Diana Hunt's queries I would like to say that I am not against land taxes in general. This will increase real wages for working people and probably will also result in broadening the ownership of land. A modest land tax in rural areas, at say one percent of the capital value can also serve to raise revenue for local government authorities, farm to market road maintenance and so on. Such a land tax has been levied in Zimbabwe for many years in the commercial farming areas. The point I was making related to a progressive land tax to promote land redistribution.
History provides few examples.
The best known is a land tax imposed in Chile in 1965 that appeared to be influencing landowners, but which was rapidly overtaken by wider land reforms and political disruption, which made it difficult to draw conclusions about its impact.