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Single Tax Party
The
Single Tax
Party
started as the
Land Value Tax
Party
in
1910
and was renamed the
Commonwealth
Land Party
for the
presidential campaign
of
1924
. Its
single-issue
platform
was based on the
free-market
tax reform
principles
defined and
popularized
by
American political
economist
and
public intellectual
Henry George
, the
ideology
now called
Georgism
, which proposed a
single tax
based on the value of land.
Presidential
tickets
1920
*President -
Robert
C. MacCauley
*Vice-president -
Carrie Chapman Catt
1924
*President - William J. Wallace
*Vice-president - John C. Lincoln