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Taxing questions of land reform
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20020821
Author:John Stewart
IT WAS Honore de Balzac's opinion that "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime". Certainly, it takes only a little research into the antecedents of large estates to uncover a rich vein of skulduggery. The "drum and trumpet history and ruling caste ancestor worship" that is taught as the nation's history does its best to conceal it, but it's there.
The problem for land reformers - with objectives ranging from full land nationalisation to a modest widening of ownership as a form of popular capitalism - is how to change things without perpetrating similar outrages of oppression and ...
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