Government's Role

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Government's Role

Dr. McGlynn's Lesson from the 1886 New York City Election Jul 5, 2023
Terrence Powderly: On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men (Cosmopolitan, December, 1891) Apr 9, 2020
Government and Revenue Mar 31, 2020
A 1927 article on Taxation Dec 10, 2016
U.S. Government Sells 400,000 Acres in Gulf Aug 23, 2014
Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28, 2013
Edgar Guest: Taxes Mar 11, 2013
Ethics of Piracy Feb 9, 2013
The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 14 — Rousseau Jan 14, 2013
Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part III (1887) Jan 7, 2013
Hugh Pentecost, on the connection between crime and poverty Jan 6, 2013
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 30 — Dove Dec 30, 2012
The Community is Entitled ... Dec 22, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 20 — Blackstone Dec 20, 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
Born Yesterday Oct 13, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 5 — Spencer Oct 5, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 3 — Marmontel Oct 3, 2012
On Wages, from an 1887 weekly ... and relevant in 2012 America Oct 2, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 30 — Exodus and the Bishop of Meath Sep 30, 2012
Stiglitz: "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 2 — Gerrit Smith and Thomas Paine Sep 2, 2012
A Right-to-Life Platform — 125 years old Aug 22, 2012
Bankrupt in California Jul 14, 2012
1886 and 2012 — what has changed? Jul 7, 2012
The Rent of Land, and Government Expense Jun 28, 2012
Resource Rentals for Revenue — The 3 R's of fixing our economy Jun 13, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 13 — Paine and Marmontel Jun 13, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 23 — Simon Newcomb Apr 23, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 13 — Jefferson Apr 13, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 1: Queen Elizabeth's Prayerbook Apr 1, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 31 — Adam Smith Mar 31, 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
Developer Inks 99-Year Lease Mar 23, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 23 - Voltaire Mar 23, 2012
The Land Questions: #40: promoting urban housing for all who want it Mar 22, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 22 — Sheldon Amos and Marmontel Mar 22, 2012
The Land Questions: #37 Mar 7, 2012
The Land Questions: #30 — Public Lands Mar 1, 2012
The Land Questions: #29 — Selling the Toll Roads Feb 29, 2012
The Land Questions: #27 — Financing a New Subway Line Feb 27, 2012
The value of land is the day-to-day product of the community Feb 22, 2012
The Land Questions: #20 Affordable Housing Feb 20, 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
The Land Questions: #13 — Electric Utilities Feb 13, 2012
The Land Questions: #12 — Water Utilities Feb 12, 2012
Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
Mason Gaffney: An Alternative Reform Jan 22, 2012
Toward an Ethical Democratic Free Society Jan 21, 2012
Social Problems Jan 21, 2012
FDR on revenue and spending Jan 20, 2012
Land Speculation Jan 19, 2012
Vie Peterson on Henry George's one tax Jan 18, 2012
Immigration and The Land Question Dec 26, 2011
15,000 contractors costing how much? Dec 15, 2011
Delaware Single Tax Platform, 1896 Dec 3, 2011
Single Tax vs Socialism Nov 27, 2011
Rent and the Cost of War Nov 24, 2011
Are We Socialists? Nov 21, 2011
Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 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
The Golden Rule: Equal Rights to all and special privileges to none Sep 20, 2011
Public Revenue for Libraries Sep 4, 2011
THE RIOTS Aug 9, 2011
Who benefits when America sells off our airwaves? Aug 2, 2011
Flies and horses, vines and pines ... May 3, 2011
Thinking about taxes and jobs Feb 16, 2011
What should we tax? Feb 10, 2011
Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10, 2011
Right-sized government and the REVENUE side of the budget Feb 10, 2011
What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20, 2010
Thy Kingdom Come! Nov 14, 2010
Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Nov 7, 2010
Mason Gaffney: Denying Inflation: Who, Why, and How Oct 15, 2010
Trickle Down Economics: The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell (Frank Rich, NYT) Oct 13, 2010
Ben Stein's Money Sep 23, 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
How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
Earned Income: Public and Private Aug 29, 2010
America's Biggest Jobs Program — The U.S. Military | TPMCafe Aug 29, 2010
Egg Factory Aug 29, 2010
The End of Poverty? Think Again! Aug 24, 2010
Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics? | Martin Wolf's Exchange Aug 17, 2010
In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming - NYT Aug 17, 2010
Learning To Get Out Of The Way « Aldous Huxley | This I Believe Aug 15, 2010
Borrowing on Expectations of Land Appreciation Aug 13, 2010
Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
David Stockman - Four Deformations of the Apocalypse Aug 7, 2010
Public Wealth and Private Wealth Aug 6, 2010
Stimulating the Well-Off to Stimulate the Economy Aug 6, 2010
How to help the country recover from a financial earthquake » Ethical Economics » Shepheard-Walwyn Book Publishers Aug 6, 2010
Why Do People Become Terrorists? Jul 1, 2010
Tackling America's Drug Addiction Jun 24, 2010
Paying for Transportation Infrastructure is simple Jun 5, 2010
Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 2010
Education and Democracy May 29, 2010
Which Georgist first called LVT the "least bad" tax? May 13, 2010
47 percent Apr 26, 2010
Crosby: Democracy Apr 21, 2010
It is time for a paradigm shift on housing Apr 9, 2010
Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 2010
Elizabeth Warren: Behind Consumer Agency Idea, a Fiery Advocate Mar 30, 2010
Moses Mar 30, 2010
Struggling Governments Get Creative to Raise Income Mar 19, 2010
Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
A thought about Glenn Beck, churches and social justice Mar 13, 2010
Union College Admits That It’s in Schenectady, NY Mar 9, 2010
Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9, 2010
That $1 billion acre in Manhattan Mar 9, 2010
Paring the Deficit, by Selling Part of the Radio Spectrum Mar 7, 2010
U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty Mar 7, 2010
Airport Landing Rights as our COMMON treasure Mar 1, 2010
Debt in America Feb 26, 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
Land, labor and capital: cleaning up after the snow storm Feb 14, 2010
The House of Tranquillity: A "Middle Class Agenda" Feb 10, 2010
Do We Really Have to Create Man-made Misery to Supplement What Nature Provides? Feb 1, 2010
Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31, 2010
"The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31, 2010
The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
The Great 18-year Real Estate Cycle Jan 30, 2010
Why I Bother Jan 26, 2010
The Feoffees, the Ipswich School Committee and the TENANTS of Little Neck Jan 23, 2010
MLK: An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring Jan 18, 2010
Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 2010
I hate to disagree with Chip Case, but I must Jan 13, 2010
Wealth Concentration data Jan 11, 2010
Neoclassical economists are rich people's useful idiots. Dec 31, 2009
Children in Poverty, Children in low-income families Dec 26, 2009
First-time homebuyers as sharecroppers Nov 9, 2009
Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2008 Nov 1, 2009
Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4, 2009
The Landed Gentry ... this time, in Pakistan Aug 18, 2009
Follow the Money: A Close Look at Recent Southern California Foreclosures Aug 18, 2009
William Jennings Bryan, on liberty and future generations Aug 5, 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
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
High and Low Finance - 2005 Tax Break for Repatriated Funds Didn’t Work as Billed Jun 5, 2009
Getting By in Oregon: How Much Does It Take? Jun 3, 2009
Thou shalt not suffer thyself or anybody else to be stolen from May 23, 2009
Land and Freedom May 23, 2009
What is the point of sending stimulus money to a state which chooses not to tax its land value?? May 21, 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
Book Review — Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back May 11, 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
The Rich List May 5, 2009
Council of Georgist Organizations Conference: Cleveland 2009 May 5, 2009
Neuroscience and social deprivation | I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told | The Economist May 5, 2009
People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29, 2009
Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12, 2009
How Do We Fix an Ailing Economy? Apr 12, 2009
Payroll Taxes Apr 8, 2009
CBO data: Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates for 2005 and 2006 Apr 7, 2009
Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
Child Labor in 1906; Child Poverty in 2009 Feb 15, 2009
The ‘W’ Word, Re-engaged - ["Welfare"] Feb 9, 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
Grocery Store Parking Lot: Sprawl in Microcosm Feb 5, 2009
Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" Feb 5, 2009
The definition of Chutzpah Jan 29, 2009
Let Us Now Praise the Back Roads of Alabama Jan 23, 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
Auditing Madoff's investors Jan 2, 2009
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
Bailing out the Private Equity crowd Dec 5, 2008
Trickle-Up Economics 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
Change Needed to End Boom-Bust Cycles Nov 27, 2008
On a well-provisioned ship, how is it that 6% of us consume ~25% of the resources? 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
Wealth Concentration and the Corruption of Government Nov 4, 2008
Americans and Mass Transit Nov 1, 2008
That acre in midtown Manhattan: $800 million — as a teardown! 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
Spreading the Wealth Oct 30, 2008
Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28, 2008
Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
NYS leasing out its assets to private sector? 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
Assessing Land Values Sep 28, 2008
The World Distribution of Wealth, part II: Natural Resources and Ownership Sep 28, 2008
Those Shareholders who are being wiped out ... who are they? - or, "How's it trickling?" Sep 26, 2008
Democratic Capitalism ... Sep 24, 2008
We all contribute to rent. Some of us get to live off it. How does this fit with the notion that we are created equal? Sep 24, 2008
He who sees the truth ... Sep 24, 2008
A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
Living paycheck to paycheck, living bonus to bonus, and trickle-down economics Sep 23, 2008
An Election Season Thought Sep 22, 2008
How Much Oil Do We Use? Sep 22, 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
The Big (and unnoticed) Winners in the Mortgage Crisis 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
That block in Manhattan ... 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
Valuing life, and applying fiscal stimulus, and setting us all equal Sep 2, 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
David Cay Johnston: Can You Hear Opportunity Knocking? 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
new Lincoln Institute Study — Property Tax Assessment Limits: Lessons from 30 Years of Experience Jul 22, 2008
Pragmatic Politics: Proposition 13 Jul 22, 2008
Low Rent, East Side Location - See Landlord, if You’re Famous Jul 22, 2008
Technically Speaking, Market Analysis and Theory: Saturday AM Coffee: A Plethora of Choices, for Some Jul 20, 2008
Transfers of Wealth Overseas Jul 20, 2008
Mandela's B-Day message: Rich should help poor Jul 18, 2008
Fannie & Freddie: Privatization of Gain, Socialization of Loss: Who Benefits? Jul 18, 2008
WealthandWant.com: The Wealth Concentration Tables 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
Bill Gates: How Can He Best Use His Wealth and Influence to Help the World? Jul 3, 2008
Be a good ancestor Jun 26, 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