On January 5, 1904,
Lizzie J. Magie, a Quaker woman from Virginia, received a
patent for a board game. Lizzie Magie belonged to a tax
movement led by Philadelphia-born Henry George; the movement
supported the theory that the renting of land and real estate
produced an unearned increase in land values that profited a
few individuals (landlords) rather than the majority of the
people (tenants). Henry George proposed a single federal tax
based on land ownership believing a single tax would
discourage speculation and encourage equal opportunity.
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