The original economists ("laissez faire," etc) were saying land is different. If the king owns the land, he owns the people's labor. But if all taxes were abolished except on land ownership, everyone would pay the same rate for land (the same RATE (not price) because some land is more valuable, of course), but we would all be tax free.
But rich people don't want to do their own chores, so they need society to stay poor. And easy to control. So, we are lied to about how simple economics really is in order to treat us like cattle.