Are You a Real Libertarian, or a Royal Libertarian?
– by Dan Sullivan, founder, geolibertarian society, and former chair, Libertarian Party of Allegheny County, (Pittsburgh) Pennsylvania
We call ourselves the "party of principle," and we base property rights on the principle that everyone is entitled to the fruits of his labor. Land, however, is not the fruit of anyone's labor; and our system of land tenure is based not on labor, but on decrees of privilege issued from the state, called titles. In fact, the term "real estate" is Middle English (originally French) for "royal state." The "title" to land is the essence of the title of nobility, and the root of noble privilege.
Henry George (1839–1897), American economist, main proponent of land value tax ("single tax" on land), author of Progress and Poverty (1879)
The royal free lunch
When the state granted land titles to a fraction of the population, it gave that fraction devices with which to levy, and pocket, tolls on the fruits of the labor of others. Those without land privileges must either buy or rent those privileges from the people who received the grants or from their assignees. Thus, the state titles enable large landowners to collect a transfer payment, or "free lunch," from the actual land users.