Abstract
While our legal embraces a myriad of forms of property, our political rhetoric of property narrowly speaks of individual ownership and control, fostering a strong dichotomy between public and private property. This rhetoric has also led us to embrace a luck system division of our natural resource wealth and to refrain from significantly taxing these resources. I compare alternative methods of natural resource ownership in democracies and suggest that poverty in natural resource rich areas such as Appalachia can only be addressed by changes in taxation of natural resource wealth. Addressing the notion of personal-identity-connected-with-property as a traditional objection to changes in property law structures, I suggest that Appalachia offers a unique test case due to the development of a strong regional identity in the mountains.
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