Seeing the Cat

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Common Good

• Meum, Tuum and Stealum Mar 28, 2020
• Giving Away the Commons ... Land Rent for Cottages on Forest Service Lands Sep 12, 2014
• U.S. Government Sells 400,000 Acres in Gulf Aug 23, 2014
• Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28, 2013
• "the collectively earned increment" Aug 1, 2013
• The Charitable-Industrial Complex Jul 27, 2013
• Gems from George: of Women, as of Men Mar 2, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 19 — Montesquieu Jan 19, 2013
• Basic Principles of Ground Lease Agreements – Yes, a Contract! Jan 13, 2013
• Leo Foley - a society we can believe in Jan 8, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 24 — Sue Dec 24, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 21 — St. Ambrose and Dr. McGlynn Dec 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar — addendum: St. Ambrose and Pope Paul VI Nov 25, 2012
• Land Speculation in Rural Indiana Nov 15, 2012
• Lower Rents as a City Slogan Oct 28, 2012
• Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
• Born Yesterday Oct 13, 2012
• On Wages, from an 1887 weekly ... and relevant in 2012 America Oct 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 12 — Grant Allen Sep 12, 2012
• One's "Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• Stiglitz: "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 14 — Abbe Lamennais Aug 14, 2012
• Resource Rentals for Revenue — The 3 R's of fixing our economy Jun 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 1: Queen Elizabeth's Prayerbook Apr 1, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 30 — Emperor Joseph II Mar 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 27 — Paine and Penn Mar 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 8 - Emerson Mar 8, 2012
• The Land Questions: #37 Mar 7, 2012
• The Land Questions: #29 — Selling the Toll Roads Feb 29, 2012
• The Land Questions: #20 Affordable Housing Feb 20, 2012
• The Land Questions: #13 — Electric Utilities Feb 13, 2012
• Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
• Mason Gaffney: An Alternative Reform Jan 22, 2012
• The Opposition to Land Value Taxation Jan 22, 2012
• Land Speculation Jan 19, 2012
• Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself. - NYTimes.com Dec 26, 2011
• "It was there for the taking" Dec 18, 2011
• Social Problems Dec 18, 2011
• Is inequality an inevitable byproduct of growth? Dec 18, 2011
• Delaware Single Tax Platform, 1896 Dec 3, 2011
• Rent and the Cost of War Nov 24, 2011
• Are We Socialists? Nov 21, 2011
• LTE: Rising Rate of Poverty - NYTimes.com Sep 26, 2011
• Are Public Sector Jobs, by Definition, a Drain on the Economy? Sep 24, 2011
• Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4, 2011
• Tax property, not people, for a fairer society May 2, 2011
• Thinking about taxes and jobs Feb 16, 2011
• Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10, 2011
• What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
• David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25, 2010
• James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20, 2010
• Thy Kingdom Come! Nov 14, 2010
• Additional thoughts on Norton and Ariely's paper Nov 14, 2010
• Land Grab in Ipswich, Massachusetts: Little Neck's 32 acres Nov 12, 2010
• Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 2010
• Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Nov 7, 2010
• Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor Oct 15, 2010
• Private equity firms eyeing Yahoo Oct 15, 2010
• The November U.S. Senate Elections Oct 15, 2010
• Self-Pitying Wealthy Poor: The Fancy-School Factor - James Fallows Oct 13, 2010
• Obama to Call for $50 Billion Public Works Plan Sep 6, 2010
• Could a Peanut Paste Called Plumpy'nut End Malnutrition? - NYTimes.com Sep 5, 2010
• How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
• America's Biggest Jobs Program — The U.S. Military | TPMCafe Aug 29, 2010
• The End of Poverty? Think Again! Aug 24, 2010
• Stimulating the Well-Off to Stimulate the Economy Aug 6, 2010
• Greater Fools Jul 5, 2010
• Aging in Place Jul 1, 2010
• Tackling America's Drug Addiction Jun 24, 2010
• Income Mobility and the Persistence Of Millionaires, 1999 to 2007 Jun 23, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
• When 2+3=6, who is entitled to the "extra" 1? Apr 27, 2010
• 47 percent Apr 26, 2010
• Hope rises for real financial reform - WaPo Apr 24, 2010
• Crosby: Democracy Apr 21, 2010
• It is time for a paradigm shift on housing Apr 9, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 2 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution 2007 — Wealth Concentration — part 3 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• Moses Mar 30, 2010
• Union College Admits That It’s in Schenectady, NY Mar 9, 2010
• Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9, 2010
• Paring the Deficit, by Selling Part of the Radio Spectrum Mar 7, 2010
• Debt in America Feb 26, 2010
• The Top 400, and the Rest of Us Feb 22, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• The House of Tranquillity: A "Middle Class Agenda" Feb 10, 2010
• "I Am For Men" Feb 3, 2010
• Do We Really Have to Create Man-made Misery to Supplement What Nature Provides? Feb 1, 2010
• Prosper California Tax Reform Initiative Jan 31, 2010
• Remembering Howard Zinn Jan 31, 2010
• Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31, 2010
• Thinking Great Thoughts Jan 31, 2010
• The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
• Why I Bother Jan 26, 2010
• Ben Stein's Farewell to C. Lowell Harriss, professor of economics - Dec. 29, 2009 Jan 22, 2010
• MLK: An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring Jan 18, 2010
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• Wealth Concentration data Jan 11, 2010
• Income Concentration Jan 11, 2010
• Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2008 Nov 1, 2009
• So is the Woodstock Generation going to fix America's most serious problems? Aug 13, 2009
• William Jennings Bryan, on liberty and future generations Aug 5, 2009
• Opportunities, Privilege, Rent — and a better way to fund our common spending Jul 22, 2009
• The Just-Getting-By Cost of Living in West Virginia in 2009 for young families Jun 24, 2009
• "END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 2009
• What You Get for... $465,000 - NYTimes.com Jun 3, 2009
• Land and Freedom May 23, 2009
• Carpe Diem! Remembering Bob Drake, of Chicago May 14, 2009
• Yertle the Turtle, and Tax Reform May 11, 2009
• How Should Connecticut Pay for Maintaining I-95, I-91, I-84 and the Parkways? May 9, 2009
• Council of Georgist Organizations Conference: Cleveland 2009 May 5, 2009
• People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29, 2009
• About Land Value Taxation Apr 8, 2009
• Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
• The 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances: Are we going to complain, or are we going to create the conditions which will improve things? Feb 16, 2009
• Child Labor in 1906; Child Poverty in 2009 Feb 15, 2009
• Equal Rights Feb 14, 2009
• The ‘W’ Word, Re-engaged - ["Welfare"] Feb 9, 2009
• How Might We Stimulate the Economy — at minimal expense? Feb 9, 2009
• Grocery Store Parking Lot: Sprawl in Microcosm Feb 5, 2009
• A Unitarian-Universalist Perspective on the Economic Crisis Jan 26, 2009
• Slum Dog Millionaire, India and America Jan 25, 2009
• Cashing in on urban land value ... who is entitled to it? Jan 23, 2009
• Let Us Now Praise the Back Roads of Alabama Jan 23, 2009
• Susan Pace Hamill: The Vast Injustice Perpetuated by State and Local Tax Policy Jan 22, 2009
• Mark Twain: The War Prayer Jan 4, 2009
• Auditing Madoff's investors Jan 2, 2009
• "Miles Per Gallon" is the wrong measuring stick! Dec 27, 2008
• The Feoffees may sell Little Neck to the tenants ... for ever and ever Dec 18, 2008
• Daily Kos: One Person's Lot is Person's Loot Dec 11, 2008
• Change.gov Dec 7, 2008
• Michael Kinsley on "Progress & Poverty" Dec 6, 2008
• hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest Nov 29, 2008
• Trickle-Up Economics Nov 29, 2008
• Dying of Consumption - NYT Nov 29, 2008
• Should we tax action, or tax inaction? Nov 27, 2008
• Change Needed to End Boom-Bust Cycles Nov 27, 2008
• Leo Tolstoy — The Last Station — and Henry George Nov 18, 2008
• On a well-provisioned ship, how is it that 6% of us consume ~25% of the resources? Nov 10, 2008
• Mason Gaffney: "The Great Crash of 2008" — and how we can dig out and head off the next one Nov 10, 2008
• How do we reduce the demand for energy? Nov 10, 2008
• High-Income Households ... some additional SCF data, relevant to Obama's SS tax options Nov 9, 2008
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration, and Ups & Downs in Consumer Spending Nov 7, 2008
• Ben Franklin, technological progress and moral progress Nov 7, 2008
• A new film: "The End of Poverty?" Nov 7, 2008
• Americans and Mass Transit Nov 1, 2008
• Fareed Zakaria: How to Spread Democracy Nov 1, 2008
• Spreading the "wealth" — this time, let's talk about income Nov 1, 2008
• Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28, 2008
• I'm not thrilled with our choices in November Oct 28, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
• Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com Oct 28, 2008
• Pew study: Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life Oct 28, 2008
• Henry George was right ... Oct 15, 2008
• We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15, 2008
• Another benefit of civilization and government Oct 12, 2008
• Rich in Natural Resources Oct 2, 2008
• Pulitzer Prize Winner Stresses Ethical Taxation Oct 1, 2008
• When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
• Some thoughts about paying taxes... Sep 22, 2008
• Productive loans, vs non-productive ones Sep 22, 2008
• A 21st Century Georgist in the Revised Common Lectionary Sep 22, 2008
• Pres. Bush is worried about people being able to send their children to college Sep 20, 2008
• The Bridge to Nowhere, and the Road to Access It Sep 19, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: The Prospering Swedes Sep 18, 2008
• Finishing the Bridge Construction Ahead of Schedule ... Sep 17, 2008
• LA Times: Can California survive 'no new taxes'? Sep 17, 2008
• Being born into the Landed Gentry is like holding the winning lottery ticket Sep 6, 2008
• Auctioning leases on our common assets: far better than giving away the asset or auctioning it once and for all Sep 4, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Income Data and the Future of the Nation Sep 4, 2008
• A Gem from Luke North Sep 3, 2008
• What does an infant cost a young family? Sep 2, 2008
• Downtown Nantucket: Who Should Get the Rent? Sep 2, 2008
• How do people who are created equal share resources equitably? Sep 1, 2008
• Port Authority to Fight Federal Proposal to Auction Airport Landing Slots - NYT Aug 26, 2008
• Joe Stiglitz: Turn left for growth Aug 26, 2008
• Making Work Pay Enough: A Decent Standard of Living for Working Families Aug 26, 2008
• Why are the Working Poor Poor? Aug 26, 2008
• Advances in Local Emergency Services: How Should We Pay for Them? Aug 2, 2008
• Transfers of Wealth Overseas Jul 20, 2008
• Fannie & Freddie: Privatization of Gain, Socialization of Loss: Who Benefits? Jul 18, 2008
• Cindy McCain's San Diego condo (the oldest of their 3) Jul 16, 2008
• We All Pay for Leona Helmsley’s Bequest to Dogs - NYT Jul 10, 2008
• Tax Analysts column: The Price of Civilization Jul 4, 2008
• Leona Helmsley’s Fortune May Go to Benefit Dogs Jul 4, 2008
• Bill Gates: How Can He Best Use His Wealth and Influence to Help the World? Jul 3, 2008
• Do you own an oil company? Jul 3, 2008
• Be a good ancestor Jun 26, 2008
• David Cay Johnston doesn't get it — yet Jun 25, 2008
• CA & FL account for nearly 1/3 of mortgages in foreclosure or 90 days delinquent Jun 19, 2008
• Thoughts for Barack Obama Jun 19, 2008
• Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19, 2008
• Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity Jun 18, 2008
• Luke Russert's tribute to his father: a new political party? Jun 18, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Jun 16, 2008
• Pope Says Church Role In Politics "For Good Of All" Jun 16, 2008