Rich and Strange Aeons

I know an old man, Walter Rybeck, who grew up West Virginia, together with his brother Arthur, whom I also knew. Arthur was a dentist, and until shortly before his death at an advanced age was providing dental care cheaply to people who couldn’t otherwise afford it.

Walter Rybeck was a journalist, and a long-term Georgist, the author of “Resolving the Economic Puzzle.” He saw the way wealth was being extracted from West Virginia, and based on that and other things he has seen in his long life (he’s one of our few surviving World War Two veterans), he advocates land value taxation, as do I, and as Arthur Rybeck did. That would relive people of taxes on their wages, and in the things they buy, and instead charge the landowners for the use of what they did nothing to create.