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The Single Tax Party was a Georgist political party in the United States. It advocated for a single tax on land as a panacea for social and economic problems. In 1924, it changed its name to the Commonwealth Land Party.[1] The party garnered little more than 5,000 votes in the 1920 United States presidential election, representing 0.02% of the total.[2]
Georgists organized the Land Value Tax Party in 1910 as an extension of the campaign for a single tax in New York.[3] Single-taxers attended the convention that organized the Farmer–Labor Party ahead of the 1920 United States elections; subsequently, the single-tax delegates held their own meeting on July 12, 1920, and nominated Robert C. Macauley for president and Richard C. Barnum for vice president.[4] The ticket polled 5,353 votes in eight states, finishing last out of a field of nine candidates. The party nominated William J. Wallace in the 1924 United States presidential election but polled only 1,532 votes.[5]
The platform adopted by the 1924 national convention called for a single tax on land to replace all other methods of taxation. It attributed economic depressions, wars, poverty, and crime to "land monopoly" and predicted these problems would cease once private ownership was abolished. The party opposed income taxes and adopted a resolution attacking the incumbent Coolidge administration over the Teapot Dome scandal.[6]
Electoral history
[edit]Presidential tickets
[edit]| Election | Ticket[7] | Electoral results[8] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presidential nominee | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral votes | Ranking | |
| 1920 | Robert C. Macauley | Richard C. Barnum | 0.02% | 0 / 531
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9 |
| 1924 | William J. Wallace | John C. Lincoln | 0.01% | 0 / 531
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See also
[edit]- Geolibertarianism
- Georgism
- Land value tax (in the 1920s better known as the "single tax")
- Tax reform
- Tax shift
- Third party (United States)
References
[edit]- ^ "National Convention of the Commonwealth Land Party". Land and Freedom. January–February 1924. pp. 6–9.
- ^ Petersen 1963, pp. 84–85.
- ^ "The Land Value Tax Party is Born". Single Tax Review. May–June 1910. p. 48.
- ^ Spooner & Smith 1922, p. 500.
- ^ Petersen 1963, pp. 83–84.
- ^ "Platform Adopted by the Commonwealth Land Party in National Convention". Land and Freedom. January–February 1924. pp. 3–5.
- ^ Stanwood 1916, pp. 403, 458.
- ^ Petersen 1963, pp. 84–85, 87–88.
Bibliography
[edit]- Petersen, Svend (1963). A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. LCCN 62-21786.
- Spooner, Walter W.; Smith, Ray B. (1922). National Political Parties with their Platforms. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Press.
- Stanwood, Edward (1916). A History of the Presidency from 1897 to 1916. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press.