Nevertheless, this rapid development has given the best of opportunities for watching the tendencies of land values.
The rapid settlement of wild lands by farmers and the rapid building of cities under free competition give the fairest illustration of tendencies in land values to be found in the world.
The limitation of land fit for agricultural purposes has a tendency in itself to increase the profits of land-holders, under the principle of monopoly, though its chief effect is on land values.
Thus high rents, or land values, if maintained by outward forces may diminish the total product, and so affect prices.
The second preliminary consideration is that the community does not create all land values nor all rent.
Does the equal right to use the bounty of nature include the right to equal shares of land, or land values, or land advantages?
This, we should think, was the first petition to the House of Commons in favour of the Taxation of Land Values.
The special taxation of land, or of land values, has been strongly urged by Henry George and his followers since the publication of the remarkable book "Progress and Poverty" in 1879.
Such are the chief manifestations of the economic phenomena of the appreciation of land values; one of the most interesting of the problems which present themselves to the observer of the modern Argentine Republic.
The Provinces of San Luis and Santiago de l'Estero were the last to take part in this movement of appreciation of land values.
Letters of inquiry were sent to real estate men and bankers in every county in the State (some 500 being communicated with), as to land values in the town or county of each.
In this new world the state has an enormous income, derived from its tax on land values.
The single tax proposal is to abolish all taxes except the tax on land values.
A primary aim of these proposals, some of which suggest elements of the single tax doctrine, is to secure a more correct assessment of land values.
Thus the single tax might result in the deterioration of land values.
The value of land depending wholly upon the power which its ownership gives of appropriating wealth created by labour, the increase of land values is always at the expense of the value of labour.
On the contrary, by compelling those who hold land on speculation to sell or let for what they can get, a tax on land values tends to increase the competition between owners, and thus to reduce the price of land.
The total increase in land values in America since the days of the pioneers equals, of course, the present value of its land, since it was acquired by our forefathers without payment, or with only a nominal fee to the Indians.
But it amounts to a confiscation of land values by the State, which would be unjust to land-owners, however advantageous to the rest of the community.
Madison in vain laid the fall in land values in Virginia to the uncertainty and low prices of the crops, to the quantity of land thrown on the market, and the attractions of the cheaper and better lands beyond the mountains.
Both men were Freetraders, and both believed strongly in the justice of land values taxation.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "land values" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
