This is preposterous. Nothing about direct taxation is 'Marxist.'
Are you calling Thomas Paine Marxist?
"it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is in individual property." -
Thomas Paine
Jefferson?
"Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a commonstock for man to labour and live on." -
Thomas Jefferson
Churchill?
"It is quite true that unearned increments in land are not the only form of unearned or undeserved profit which individuals are able to secure; but it is the principal form of unearned increment, derived from processes, which are not merely not beneficial, but which are positively detrimental to the general public. Land, which is a necessity of human existence, which is the original source of all wealth, which is strictly limited in extent, which is fixed in geographical position - land, I say, differs from all other forms of property in these primary and fundamental conditions. " -
Winston Churchill
This is the problem with conservatives these days. All they have is hyperbole. Everything to them is Marxist. Everything to them is communist. They've lost all intellectual integrity.
The country used direct taxation from the get-go.
Sales tax often forces people to shop elsewhere.
Your reasoning makes no sense. You say that direct taxation punishes success, but then your indirect taxation (eg sales tax) punishes basic survival (food is taxed, clothing is taxed, etc).
Lol, have you paid attention at all? LVT reduces/eliminates taxation on your improvements. Tax on house, for example, is eliminated. You pay for the land value MINUS your improvements.