Is It a Flat Tax, but It's a Progressive Flat Tax?

In the 19th century, an American political economist named henry george proposed a flat tax on land and real estate. The idea was to get rid of all our crazy, counter productive, byzantine tax tirecture by just doing all of taxes this way. Mark lorry: This is basically the scheme of a nineteenth century american political economist called Henry george. He says if you can't sell your property or rent it out then there's no value in it.