Financing Infrastructure

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Financing Infrastructure

Dr. McGlynn's Lesson from the 1886 New York City Election Jul 5, 2023
Giving consideration to a just tax Apr 11, 2013
Basic Principles of Ground Lease Agreements – Yes, a Contract! Jan 13, 2013
The Mortgage on the Farm Dec 30, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 30 — Dove Dec 30, 2012
Baltimore Ground Rents — some history and some principles Dec 19, 2012
Land Speculation in Rural Indiana Nov 15, 2012
That acre in Manhattan Oct 21, 2012
Chrystia Freeland: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else Oct 21, 2012
Stiglitz: "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
High Rent as the Best Manure Jul 4, 2012
The Rent of Land, and Government Expense Jun 28, 2012
NYT 99 years ago ... a "Lower Rents" bill in Albany Jun 27, 2012
Resource Rentals for Revenue — The 3 R's of fixing our economy Jun 13, 2012
Parking Revenue funds "Room for All" Apr 16, 2012
Appropriating the Gifts of Nature Apr 13, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 27 — Paine and Penn Mar 27, 2012
Developer Inks 99-Year Lease Mar 23, 2012
The Land Questions: #37 Mar 7, 2012
The Land Questions: #36 — the land in the path of progress (2) Mar 6, 2012
The Land Questions: #29 — Selling the Toll Roads Feb 29, 2012
The Land Questions: #27 — Financing a New Subway Line Feb 27, 2012
Brief Statement of Single Tax Philosophy Feb 26, 2012
Another motto: Save the Rent for Society Feb 26, 2012
The Land Questions: #26 — Revenue Sources for Financing Transportation Feb 26, 2012
The Land Questions: #25: Is Transportation a Good Investment? Feb 25, 2012
The Land Questions: #24 — Financing Transportation: What Revenue Sources? Feb 24, 2012
The Land Questions: #23 — Financing Operating Costs of Public Transit Feb 23, 2012
The value of land is the day-to-day product of the community Feb 22, 2012
The Land Questions: #22 — Infrastructure and Land Values Feb 22, 2012
The Land Questions: #21 — Paying for Transportation Infrastructure Feb 21, 2012
A 1938 NYT Letter to the Editor: Collecting Ground Rent Feb 16, 2012
NYT Invitation to a Dialogue - A National Service Program Feb 15, 2012
Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
Gavin Putland: All the way with Hazlitt - as far as he goes - Jan 24, 2012
Toward an Ethical Democratic Free Society Jan 21, 2012
FDR on revenue and spending Jan 20, 2012
Land Speculation Jan 19, 2012
Secret to adequate transit funding in half a sentence | The Menace of Privilege Jan 9, 2012
"It was there for the taking" Dec 18, 2011
Financing The Guernsey Market Dec 4, 2011
Building a Railroad, and Paying for It — and Who Benefits? Dec 3, 2011
Delaware Single Tax Platform, 1896 Dec 3, 2011
Are We Socialists? Nov 21, 2011
Progress: Sharing the Earth So All May Prosper - September-November issue Nov 16, 2011
Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 2011
0-0-0-0-100 Oct 15, 2011
Another whistle-blower, ignored by authorities ... Oct 9, 2011
Economic Indicator: Westport, CT, teardowns Oct 2, 2011
LTE: Rising Rate of Poverty - NYTimes.com Sep 26, 2011
What's an intact tire and your car's alignment worth to you, per year? Sep 25, 2011
Are Public Sector Jobs, by Definition, a Drain on the Economy? Sep 24, 2011
Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4, 2011
Flies and horses, vines and pines ... May 3, 2011
A Better Way to Do Housing Apr 11, 2011
Some 1927 wisdom for New Jersey in 2011 Feb 10, 2011
Riches from real estate: cui bono? Feb 10, 2011
Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10, 2011
Right-sized government and the REVENUE side of the budget Feb 10, 2011
Financing the Subway Jan 16, 2011
An Essay on the Single Tax In 50 Words. Dec 17, 2010
What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20, 2010
Thy Kingdom Come! Nov 14, 2010
God bless the child that's got his own Nov 13, 2010
Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Nov 7, 2010
Get Rich Quick Scheme Nov 7, 2010
A Hudson Tunnel That Goes One Way Oct 29, 2010
Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor Oct 15, 2010
Trickle Down Economics: The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell (Frank Rich, NYT) Oct 13, 2010
FIRE Sector Strikes Again: Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love Sep 13, 2010
Obama to Call for $50 Billion Public Works Plan Sep 6, 2010
Housing Choice - Help Today’s Owners or Future Buyers? Sep 5, 2010
America's Biggest Jobs Program — The U.S. Military | TPMCafe Aug 29, 2010
In India, Many Potholes and Not Enough Engineers - NYTimes.com Aug 29, 2010
Suburban Sprawl and the Decline of Social Capital Aug 26, 2010
In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming - NYT Aug 17, 2010
Public Wealth and Private Wealth Aug 6, 2010
Stimulating the Well-Off to Stimulate the Economy Aug 6, 2010
Princeton's Revaluation Aug 6, 2010
How a $9 B. Tunnel Could Make Jersey Homeowners ($18 B) Richer Jul 31, 2010
Joe Stiglitz: the people are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer Jul 29, 2010
Greater Fools Jul 5, 2010
What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14, 2010
Paying for Transportation Infrastructure is simple Jun 5, 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
It is time for a paradigm shift on housing Apr 9, 2010
Struggling Governments Get Creative to Raise Income Mar 19, 2010
Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
Our Aging Infrastructure: Saving U.S. Water and Sewer Systems Would Be Costly Mar 15, 2010
That $1 billion acre in Manhattan Mar 9, 2010
Airport Landing Rights as our COMMON treasure Mar 1, 2010
Nation Building — abroad and at home Feb 23, 2010
America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
How should we-the-people pay for ... snow removal? Feb 15, 2010
10 of the largest endowments in N.E. Jan 31, 2010
Prosper California Tax Reform Initiative Jan 31, 2010
Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31, 2010
Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 2010
I hate to disagree with Chip Case, but I must Jan 13, 2010
Follow the Money: A Close Look at Recent Southern California Foreclosures Aug 18, 2009
NRDC: Ranking States’ Oil Vulnerability and Solutions for Change Aug 12, 2009
The Ethics of Sharecropping, Taxation ... and Theft Jul 23, 2009
Opportunities, Privilege, Rent — and a better way to fund our common spending Jul 22, 2009
PARABLE OF THE OFFICE BUILDING Jul 21, 2009
"END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 2009
Is California Over-Taxed? Jun 7, 2009
Land Value Taxation — Connecticut's legislature just passed enabling legislation for New London to try it! Jun 3, 2009
What You Get for... $465,000 - NYTimes.com Jun 3, 2009
What is the point of sending stimulus money to a state which chooses not to tax its land value?? May 21, 2009
Gary Schilling's idea ... May 14, 2009
Carpe Diem! Remembering Bob Drake, of Chicago May 14, 2009
1 in 5 Pennsylvania Families Lack Sufficient Income to Meet Their Most Modestly Defined Needs May 14, 2009
Yertle the Turtle, and Tax Reform May 11, 2009
An Hour with the BBC World Service May 11, 2009
How Should Connecticut Pay for Maintaining I-95, I-91, I-84 and the Parkways? May 9, 2009
The UK Rich List — some additional thoughts — with reference to America, as well May 9, 2009
Council of Georgist Organizations Conference: Cleveland 2009 May 5, 2009
Michael Kinsley - The Senate's Estate Tax Debate Apr 10, 2009
About Land Value Taxation Apr 8, 2009
Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
How Might We Stimulate the Economy — at minimal expense? Feb 9, 2009
Should Landlords Share in their Tenants' Profits? Should our Urban Landlords be Society's Big Winners? Feb 9, 2009
Statistics of Income: Mortgage Interest and Real Estate Taxes Feb 5, 2009
How much land does a family need? What are the implications for our country? Feb 5, 2009
Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" Feb 5, 2009
Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 2009
Who is entitled to the economic rent on Bolivia's trove of lithium? Feb 2, 2009
Federal Gifts to Landlords Feb 2, 2009
Buy it Up — Break it Up — Fund it Right! Jan 26, 2009
A Unitarian-Universalist Perspective on the Economic Crisis Jan 26, 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
NYT: Property Values - What You Get for ... $850,000 Jan 21, 2009
Dumbest Thing Voters Did Jan 18, 2009
Some Factoids from the CBO on Infrastructure Investment Jan 17, 2009
Landlording in NYC: "We don't pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes." Jan 3, 2009
Eisenhower's roads to prosperity Jan 2, 2009
The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 2008
The Foldvarium: How to Extirpate Poverty Dec 21, 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
A Property Tax Cut Could Help Save Buffalo - WSJ.com Dec 7, 2008
Change.gov Dec 7, 2008
hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest Nov 29, 2008
Taxes and Tolls Sought in Plan to Save M.T.A. - NYTimes.com Nov 29, 2008
Trickle-Up Economics Nov 29, 2008
Dying of Consumption - NYT Nov 29, 2008
Tom Friedman, NYT 11/26/08 - All Fall Down Nov 29, 2008
Should we tax action, or tax inaction? Nov 27, 2008
Americans and Mass Transit Nov 1, 2008
That acre in midtown Manhattan: $800 million — as a teardown! Nov 1, 2008
Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28, 2008
Bob Herbert: A Fool’s Paradise Oct 28, 2008
NYS leasing out its assets to private sector? Oct 28, 2008
Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com Oct 28, 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
Assessing Land Values Sep 28, 2008
When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 2008
A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
How Much Oil Do We Use? Sep 22, 2008
The Bridge to Nowhere, and the Road to Access It Sep 19, 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
Gold-based lease could cause million-dollar rent hike for Forest City Enterprises Sep 3, 2008
Valuing life, and applying fiscal stimulus, and setting us all equal 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
PBS's NOW, 8/1/08: Alaska: Governor Palin & Oil Resources — Who Do They Belong To? Sep 1, 2008
Port Authority to Fight Federal Proposal to Auction Airport Landing Slots - NYT Aug 26, 2008
David Cay Johnston: Can You Hear Opportunity Knocking? Aug 26, 2008
Renters deserve a better shake - Boston Globe Aug 14, 2008
Advances in Local Emergency Services: How Should We Pay for Them? Aug 2, 2008
new Lincoln Institute Study — Property Tax Assessment Limits: Lessons from 30 Years of Experience Jul 22, 2008
Pragmatic Politics: Proposition 13 Jul 22, 2008
Mandela's B-Day message: Rich should help poor 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
CA & FL account for nearly 1/3 of mortgages in foreclosure or 90 days delinquent Jun 19, 2008
The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
Alaska Oil Revenues Tally High Jun 8, 2008
Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28, 2008
Taxes that protect our firefighters May 28, 2008
The Price of Land in the New York Metropolitan Area May 15, 2008
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: Rafe Esquith sort of sees it! Apr 28, 2008
A Few Inconvenient Truths about the Property Tax Apr 28, 2008
Are Property Tax "Circuit Breakers" a 'Solution' to anything? Apr 28, 2008
Bill Batt: Property Tax Relief Measures: Answers to the "Poor Widow" Argument Apr 23, 2008
How much is your home worth? Apr 18, 2008
a tax reformer does the family 1040's Apr 18, 2008
The Purpose of Government Apr 17, 2008
Abolish All 'Taxes' - NYT Apr 17, 2008
California's Proposition 13 and Parcel Taxes: Adding insult to injury for new property owners Apr 13, 2008
Alabama's taxes Apr 13, 2008
Contra Costa Times OpEd — End the property tax Apr 13, 2008
Taxes as oppression, taxes as incentives: Alabama Apr 12, 2008
CT: Revitalizing older cities Apr 1, 2008
Earmarks, nightlights and windfalls - Individual, or Community? Apr 1, 2008
Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Apr 1, 2008
Fortunes Made in Real Estate Apr 1, 2008
Funding Infrastructure: A Dedicated Funding Stream Apr 1, 2008
Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Apr 1, 2008
The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Apr 1, 2008
Working harder, making others richer Apr 1, 2008
Financing Municipal Spending through Sales Taxes: an Inferior "Solution" Mar 30, 2008
Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 30, 2008
Redirecting Sprawl Mar 30, 2008
Who Should Get the Land Rent? Mar 30, 2008
Revitalizing older cities Mar 29, 2008
San Luis Obispo County (CA): Governor tells SLO County that 'nothing is sacred' when it comes to budget cuts Mar 29, 2008
Funding Infrastructure: A Dedicated Funding Stream Mar 29, 2008
Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Mar 28, 2008
Philadelphia, its Wage Tax and its Residents Mar 27, 2008
Connecticut: Should Cities Use a Sales Tax? Mar 25, 2008
Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Mar 25, 2008
Did someone yell "FIRE" sector? Bailouts for whose benefit?? Mar 19, 2008
Earmarks, nightlights and windfalls - Individual, or Community? Mar 19, 2008
The Basis of U.S. Poverty Statistics Mar 16, 2008
Guns or Butter? Our Infrastructure, or Iraq's? Mar 16, 2008
Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Mar 15, 2008
Fortunes Made in Real Estate Mar 14, 2008
Closet Georgists and Georgites: Bill Buckley, and others Mar 10, 2008
Hotel Roosevelt For Sale at $1 Billion Mar 9, 2008
Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? (NYT, 3/9/08) Mar 9, 2008
Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 7, 2008
Financing Municipal Spending through Sales Taxes: an Inferior "Solution" Mar 4, 2008
Who Should Get the Land Rent? Mar 2, 2008
1 in 100 behind bars ... in America! Mar 2, 2008
Ricardo's Law: The Great Tax Clawback Scam Mar 1, 2008
Private (homeowner) Associations, their Private Beaches, and the Local Assessor Mar 1, 2008
Redirecting Sprawl Feb 29, 2008
Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Feb 28, 2008
Americans and Golf, and the local assessor Feb 24, 2008
Downtown Sprawl, Property Assessments and Getting the Incentives Right Feb 21, 2008
The College, the Beach, and the Cottagers Feb 21, 2008
The Feoffees, their tenants, and the Ipswich public schools Feb 20, 2008