Lien...
In U.S. law, lien is the broadest term for any sort of charge or encumbrance against an item of property that secures the payment of a debt or performance of some other obligation.
Liens can be consensual or non-consensual. Consensual liens are imposed by a contract between the creditor and the debtor. These liens include:
mortgages;
car loans;
security interests;
chattel mortgages
Non-consensual liens typically arise by statute or by the operation of the common law. These laws give a creditor the right to impose a lien on an item of real property or a chattel by the existence of the relationship of creditor and debtor. These liens include:
tax liens, imposed to secure payment of a tax;
attorney's liens, against funds and documents to secure payment of fees;
mechanic's liens, which secure payment for work done on property or land;
judgment liens, imposed to secure payment of a judgment
maritime liens, imposed on ships by admiralty law.
Liens are also "perfected" or "unperfected." Perfected liens are those liens for which a creditor has established a priority right in the encumbered property with respect to third party creditors. Perfection is generally accomplished by taking steps required by law to give third party creditors notice of the lien. The fact that an item of property is in the hands of the creditor usually constitutes perfection. Where the property remains in the hands of the debtor, some further step must be taken, like recording a notice of the security interest with the appropriate office.
Perfecting a lien is an important part of the task of protecting the secured creditor's interest in the property. A perfected lien is valid against bona fide purchasers of property, and even against a trustee in bankruptcy; an unperfected lien may not be.
I posted the whole wiki-article for the sake of this argument as source material.
I bolded and underlined two key factors in a lien. First, it asserts an ECUMBERANCE on any given property be it a house, car, and etc which you paid for in a loan. What loan does eukreign pay in his scenerio of being self-sufficient? Second, the concept of a lien asserts an OBLIGATION. What obligation has eukreign agreed to within his scenerio? With that being said, your argument is that there are natural rights, which there are none if you can get your head out of Immanuel Kant's sphincter for five seconds. And that one of those 'natural rights' is the freedom of absolute mobility. What gave you that idea? I mean, think about it. I am never free to move about as I wish and do as I wish for the simple fact that others can easily impede me. Rights are moral ought-bes or could-bes, not ARE-bes [Mmmm....arbees....DAMNIT!]. Because of that fact, rights are about improving the rights of those that acknowledge them for themselves AND others. So, what benefit do I get from georgism? None, for the simple fact that a State must exist to impose your lien and thus you are imposing force. Mind you, I'm not an anarchist, but to me the State's job is not to enforce liens by popular consensus.
If you cannot provide a case for natural rights and specifically your formulation of natural rights, then your whole argument fails on start.
So, Bennie, can you produce a refutation of Causality Vs Duty by Ayn Rand? If not, then retract the claim, k?
-- Bridget