Then, after funding the government, the left over money would be distributed to the people. Georgism refers to the economic perspective that instead of taxing income or other sources, the government should create a universal land tax based on the usefulness, size, and location of the land ( Single tax). Magie was an outspoken activist for the feminist movement, and Georgism, which reflected her father's political beliefs when she was young.

In 1910, at age 44, she married Albert Wallace Phillips. She also worked as a news reporter for a brief time in the early 1900s. At the time, women were credited with less than one percent of all patents. At the age of 26, Magie received a patent for her invention that made the typewriting process easier by allowing paper to go through the rollers more easily. She was also a short story and poetry writer, comedian, stage actress, feminist, and engineer. and Maryland area in the early 1880s, she worked as a stenographer and typist at the Dead Letter Office. Magie, a newspaper publisher and an abolitionist who accompanied Abraham Lincoln as he traveled around Illinois in the late 1850s debating politics with Stephen Douglas. Magie was born in Macomb, Illinois, in 1866 to Mary Jane (née Ritchie) and James K. She invented The Landlord's Game, the precursor to Monopoly, to illustrate teachings of the progressive era economist Henry George. Magie Phillips ( née Magie – March 2, 1948) was an American game designer, writer, feminist, and Georgist.

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