Saturday, 25 June 2011

Short Lists

Picking up where I left off two months ago, the three cheap consumables with Land Value Tax connexions are:

1. The Henry George 5 cent cigar (had his face on the packet) ;
2. "Big President" Sun Yat Sen cigarettes sold in packs of 16 in China now;
3. Tsingtao lager from former German land tax enclave on Chinese coast.
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This week's short list: Three famous admirals whose name ended with "- itz".

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tirp, Don and Nim



Who argued above that x was not a war crim as y would have done the same?

Best,
Mike W

Mark Wadsworth said...

Well done. I believe Nim made that argument.

DBC Reed said...

Tirpitz was the land-taxing admiral in Tsingtao where Brit and German investors set up the brewery.The German Navy ran the enclave and laid down the land-tax law.Oddly,British colonial officials in Hong Kong were more keen on land nationalisation.Funny old place, History.

Mark Wadsworth said...

DBC, yup, I'd been meaning to do the admirals short list for a while, so this was the golden oppo to link it in to the previous one.

James Higham said...

The Henry George 5 cent cigar (had his face on the packet)

That's LVT, is it?

Mark Wadsworth said...

JH, the cigar isn't, but Henry George is.