UNFORTUNATELY, UNIONS HAVE COME TO BELIEVE ‘CAPITAL’ IS THE PROBLEM

HOW DOES THAT FIX IMPOSSIBLE LAND PRICES?

It is the opinion of this Congress, that a simple yet sovereign remedy which will raise wages, increase and give remunerative employment, abolish poverty, extirpate pauperism, lessen crime, elevate moral taste and intelligence, purify government, and carry civilisation to a yet nobler height, is to abolish all taxation save that on land values.”

  • Unanimous vote at the inter-colonial Trades Union Congress of Australia 1888