ground-rent

Now ground-rent is payment for the labor of nature!

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

When land is held out of use, the cost of its use (the basic ground-rent) raises due to the competition of the amount of it that remains available for use.

The Economy is a Disaster 2010

This results in high production costs due to excessive ground-rent having to be paid by the entrepreneur, and consequently the amount of production is reduced and the demand for the product is slowed.

Reform We Can Believe In 2009

The regulation of these land rights is a natural result of the introduction of the taxation of land values (after the value has been publicly declared on up-dated land maps) and the free use of earnings and money use outside of ground-rent on natural resources.

OpEdNews - Diary: Jeff Sharlet, Author, THE FAMILY, on Rob Kall Radio Tonight 2009

Every proprietor therefore . . . owes to the community a ground-rent . . . for the land which he holds, or Land Value TaxLVT.

The Volokh Conspiracy » What Constitutes a “Fair Share”? 2007

The revenue is composed of three principal items; an ounce ($16) per head of negro embarked at Porto da Lenha; four per cent, on all goods sold, and, lastly, a hundred hard dollars monthly ground-rent — £l92 (English pound symbol) a year.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Sometimes, as in the final, uncompleted chapter of Das Kapital (1867-95) which represents his most self-conscious effort to present a theory of strati - fication, Marx adopted the trichotomous functional scheme of Adam Smith, e.g.: “the owners merely of labor-power, owners of capital, and landowners, whose respective sources of income are wages, profit, and ground-rent ...”

CLASS LEWIS A. COSER 1968

I bought one of these houses, subject to the ground-rent, and moved into it as soon as finished.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

He could not help seeing, as in a mirror, under the veil of the mysterious postscript, the reflection of seven hundred thousand francs of ground-rent which made the splendid income of the General.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

But, shortly after the grant of an extended term to Sir W. Milman, handsome streets of family houses sprung up, and it was computed that a ground-rent of at least 1,600_l_. would accrue to the charity on the expiration of his lease.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829 Various