A few weeks ago the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times in London, Martin Wolf, penned an excellent article called ‘ The Case for a Land Tax is Overwhelming ’. Here’s an excerpt: ‘ I have long been a supporter of taxing land value. Such a tax would be economically efficient and morally just. But it has been politically impossible: the landowning interest, which now includes a large part of the population as owner-occupiers, has been too strong. This is a trage