> With the caveat that “the government” should somehow represent the will of society
I'm going to ask you a genuine, non-rhetorical question: When was the last time this was the case? Athens, and not for long? Surely not Republican Rome, any other period in Rome's history, Feudal Europe to the 20th C., dynastic or warlord-ruled Asia, or the United States of America, though perhaps it came close for a brief period in the 18th century.
It's certainly not the case now. Feudalism is the form of government that is most natural to man, just as it is most natural to bees and ants. An LVT would be a step in the direction of feudalism again, with professional politicians and bureaucrats as the tyrants who know that they de facto own all of the land, and can charge whatever rents they like.
I'm going to ask you a genuine, non-rhetorical question: When was the last time this was the case? Athens, and not for long? Surely not Republican Rome, any other period in Rome's history, Feudal Europe to the 20th C., dynastic or warlord-ruled Asia, or the United States of America, though perhaps it came close for a brief period in the 18th century.
It's certainly not the case now. Feudalism is the form of government that is most natural to man, just as it is most natural to bees and ants. An LVT would be a step in the direction of feudalism again, with professional politicians and bureaucrats as the tyrants who know that they de facto own all of the land, and can charge whatever rents they like.