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Deliberate
I did mention seignorage didn't I? I thought I did! Maybe I cut it out as too much at once. But I am sort of assured by discussions elsewhere that the "free land" and more level playing field will drive forward a sort of automatic monetary reform in that money will be less inflated by debt if land values come out and bank customers more able to survive without their credit. Banking will have to change in other words.
Besides, I have become more agnostic about the best direction for "money" anyway. I think increasing truly free trade enabled by tariff eradication will soon create a demand for a common currency of some kind as exchanging currencies in order to trade is a barrier, of sorts. And developments in global communications and so on will enable more people to deal direct with one another with complementary currenices, even virtual ones.
The choice of "The Single Tax" was deliberate. I was trying to move away from using the word "land" because it tends to create confusion with "location". "The Single Tax" is in theory a charge on all "economic" land. But I also agree that one may want to keep slightly different taxes on certain rsources etc