# Book IX: Effects of the Remedy explained — Progress and Poverty

> Chapter companion for Progress and Poverty by Henry George.

## What happens

This chapter explores the transformative effects of implementing the single tax on land values, arguing that it would abolish poverty, eliminate industrial depressions, promote social justice, and foster human progress by removing the speculative holding of land and ensuring that all individuals have equal access to natural opportunities.

## Themes in this chapter

### The Single Tax on Land Values

The chapter details the anticipated effects of the single tax remedy on poverty, depressions, and social progress.

### Social Justice and Equality

The remedy is presented as a means to achieve greater social justice and equality by ensuring equal access to land.

## Character check-ins

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The narrator presents the argument for the effects of the single tax remedy.

## Key lines

> The effects of the remedy would be to abolish poverty, to raise wages, to increase the earnings of capital, to extirpate pauperism, to do away with the fear of old age and the dread of want, to give to all classes the comforts and refinements of civilization, and to make possible a higher and nobler civilization.

Implementing the single tax would eliminate poverty, increase wages and capital returns, eradicate pauperism, remove fears of old age and want, provide all classes with civilized comforts, and enable a more advanced civilization.

_The narrator summarizes the broad positive outcomes expected from the remedy._

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