Single Tax Party
The Single Tax Party was a Georgist political party in the United States. It advocated for a single tax on land as a panacea for social and economic problems. In 1924, it changed its name to the Commonwealth Land Party. The party garnered little more than 5,000 votes in the 1920 United States presidential election, representing 0.02% of the total.
Georgists organized the Land Value Tax Party in 1910 as an extension of the campaign for a single tax in New York. Single-taxers attended the convention that organized the Farmer–Labor Party ahead of the 1920 United States elections; subsequently, the single-tax delegates held their own meeting on July 12, 1920, and nominated Robert C. Macauley for president and Richard C. Barnum for vice president. The ticket polled 5,353 votes in eight states, finishing last out of a field of nine candidates. The party nominated William J. Wallace in the 1924 United States presidential election but polled only 1,532 votes.
The platform adopted by the 1924 national convention called for a single tax on land to replace all other methods of taxation. It attributed economic depressions, wars, poverty, and crime to "land monopoly" and predicted these problems would cease once private ownership was abolished. The party opposed income taxes and adopted a resolution attacking the incumbent Coolidge administration over the Teapot Dome scandal.