§ The hall of

Geo-Libertarian

Fred E. Foldvary and Mark A. Sullivan are leading advocates of Geo-Libertarianism, integrating Georgist land value taxation with a minarchist state structure. This model promotes free-market capitalism while ensuring land rent is collected for public goods instead of taxing labor or capital. Organizations such as the Council of Georgist Organizations reflect this diverse approach, emphasizing limited government while addressing land monopoly issues through taxation.

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Geo-Libertarian · cell 7·5

§ The territory

What it believes

The minimal state, funded by the one just tax: government confined to rights-protection, financed entirely by land rents — the single levy that takes nothing anyone made — with all production and exchange left untouched.

The appeal

It solves minarchism's embarrassing question (who pays for the watchman, and how, without theft?) with Georgist elegance: the unowned earth pays, and no one's labor is docked a cent.

Where it breaks

It inherits both parents' transition problems — assessing land honestly requires bureaucracy, taxing it fully expropriates current owners — and a constituency of nearly pure theorists: its country remains a whiteboard.

Among its neighbours

Georgism above accepts a fuller state spending the same rent. The Minarchist beside it never solved the funding question this cell answers. Below, the Geoanarchist drops the state and keeps the community rent. Marketward, the National Libertarian funds its small state the old-fashioned way.

§ Featured · the definitive faces

Figures — real and imagined — who share the Geo-Libertarian base ideology. They differ only on the third axis: from radical to restorationist, each is a different face of a Geo-Libertarian.