The Single Tax League was a Georgist Australian political party that flourished throughout the 1920s and 1930s based on support for single tax.
Based upon the ideas of Henry George, who argued that all taxes should be abolished, save for a single tax on unimproved land values, the Single Tax League was founded shortly after World War I, and a newspaper, the People's Advocate was published. The League had pockets of support throughout Australia but none more than on the west coast of South Australia, whose farmers and graziers saw merit in single tax theory. A great proponent of the theory was J. Medway Day via his short-lived weekly newspaper The Voice.
The League's sole parliamentary representative was Edward Craigie, who was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Flinders (covering the League's west coast power base) in the 1930 state election. Though the party first contested the 1918 state election, the onset of the Great Depression in Australia had led people to seek radical solutions and the manifesto of the League seemed as likely to solve their woes as any government devised plan.
Craigie worked tirelessly to have a single tax system instituted in South Australia but faced stiff opposition from the conservative Liberal Federation (and their successors, the Liberal and Country League), which despised the idea of a single tax, and the Labor Party, which was opposed to the League's free trade stance.
Craigie was re-elected at the 1933 and 1938 state elections before being defeated at the 1941 state election, when the ideas of the Single Tax League already seemed an anachronism to most people. The League did not field any further candidates and drifted into obscurity.
A singletax is a system of taxation based mainly or exclusively on one tax, typically chosen for its special properties, often being a tax on land value...
The SingleTaxLeague was a Georgist Australian political party that flourished throughout the 1920s and 1930s based on support for singletax. Based upon...
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The SingleTax was a monthly newspaper launched in June 1894 and published in Glasgow by the Scottish Land Restoration Union. The periodical changed its...
the Scottish SingleTaxLeague. In 1904, it was again renamed, as the Scottish League for the Taxation of Land Values. Highland Land League http://www.election...
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elections. Huie founded the singletax journal the Standard in December 1905, remaining editor and secretary of the SingleTaxLeague until December 1953. He...
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year the paper’s proprietor, the Scottish SingleTaxLeague, passed its ownership over to the Scottish League for the Taxation of Land Values (both organisations...
separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property, sales, capital...
Edward John Craigie (5 September 1871 – 17 January 1966) was a SingleTaxLeague member for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Flinders from...
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had no children. From 1892 Day edited the Pioneer, the paper of the SingleTaxLeague; then in 1893 edited his own short-lived weekly, The Voice. A strong...
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electorate 1875–1884 and 1902–1915. A single-member electorate since 1938, it was held by Edward Craigie of the SingleTaxLeague from 1938 to 1941. It has been...
street-corner speaker, president of the Balmain SingleTaxLeague, and joined the Australian Socialist League. He was an organiser with the Australian Workers'...
the Rhode Island College Equal Suffrage League and Third Vice-President of the Women's National SingleTaxLeague, a group supporting the ideas of Henry...
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