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Edward Bellamy suggested that the government should charge landowners a a single tax on the value of land, and Henry George wrote the classic "Progress and Poverty" after seeing poverty at it's worst in India. George believed that the pressure of a growing population with a fixed supply of land pushed up property values.

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