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Georgists always want to tell me that all of the absolute worst features of the State would be OK as long as they were accompanied by the Single Tax. “Borders? Oh, they’ll be fine as long as there’s a Single Tax to pay out to those who have been excluded.” “Eminent Domain for urban development? Well of course it will be fine if it comes with a Single Tax to compensate those deprived of their property.” I expect some day I am going to do a post about the bombing of Hiroshima and some Georgist is going to leave a comment saying “Well of course that was horrible, but the real problem here is that the dropped the atom bomb without a Single Tax to compensate the people in Hiroshima for the locational rents that they were deprived of. If locational rents were being collected from the non-atom-bombed parts of the world, there’s nothing you could object to, right?”