assassination and controlling land

Today's top BBC story is about who assassinated the Lebanese Prime Minister. As usual it's about land rights. "...it is widely believed that the Syrian authorities were angered by Mr Hariri's growing opposition to their influence in Lebanon. ... Syria was the main power in Lebanon until its military withdrawal earlier this year."

Land rent solves all this nonsense about land grabbing. If we have land rent, whoever occupies the land must pay the full market rate for depriving others of its use. Aggressive thugs cannot afford to occupy land, tanks or not.

Fewer occupations and political assassinations: another advantage of land rent.