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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A More Stealthy Georgist Cat</span></u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> By David Harold Chester, October 2019<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Georgist cat is small and lean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And often doesn’t get to be seen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It hides in the branches of an economic’s-tree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So it takes a long while for you or for me,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To appreciate its cute and original form
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">That the landlords are so ready to scorn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The economic’s-tree has many fine branches
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(On which we contend, there are no free-lunches).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Whilst the land-owning rich in the city all claim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As bloated capitalists, that they’re not to blame<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For the gap that lays ‘twixt the poor and the wealthy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">But oppose any tax to make our nation healthy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Have you heard the tale of a committee, that
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thought to bell and get warning of a fat cat?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">But could not find a soul to apply this device,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Because typically all were a council of mice!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our Georgist cat has a bell ready-fitted,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Which makes this analogy more to be pitted).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This warning sound makes our ideals unwanted,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For a new tax is how politicians get doubted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So the Georgist cat fails to catch any mice
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">That pose as landlords, along with their vice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">But how shall we silence the bell’s warning sound<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And quieten the news that our pussy’s around?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our Georgist feline is in serious error,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">‘Cause its bell draws attention not only to whether<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Valuable sites can be ethically shared,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">But also the rent from a site is declared<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As the means to replace other kinds of taxation,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Which obviously causes the landlords vexation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In the economic’s tree many other beasts lurk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">But are missed, after learning of Henry G’s quirk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Through the cat-finder’s recently brilliant discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This writer seeks a new means for recovery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From our politi-unacceptable claim,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And stealthily project LVT once again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If we would but examine some more of the tree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Alternatives are waiting there for us to see.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Among them is hiding a far better way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For an equivalent LVT effect, to stay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In essence, without causing such evil offences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To the landlords and their partitioning fences.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When a property-owner decides to sell--quick
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The gov’ment buys its land, and not the public!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Its occupant then leases it for a similar fee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To the One-Tax of Henry George’s decree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Any buildings on-site should be sold as previously<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">But without the land, on which the price grievously
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Had risen, with huge speculation in its advance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">That stopped entrepreneurs from having a chance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The cost of this land must be raised through new bonds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Which the government sells and the public responds,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">‘Though their interest-rate’s a bit lower than rent,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Their returns are more stable than the average tenant!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This process will take many years to complete--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So its financial support is no great money feat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">After the lease-fees begin to collect,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gov’ments can tax less, and firmly expect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To pursue this policy without change, until<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All the lease-fees are site-rents in the national till.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">With the land properly shared, the government sees
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">That site development stays with the current lessees.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Other taxes that cause so much trouble and hate
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Are scrapped, with great pleasure to all in the state,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Except for some bankers and the tax collectors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Whose actions no longer apply in these sectors.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Land-rights will be shared through this simple device,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By a fast-growing country that takes our advice.
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