Land Speculation

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Land Speculation

Congressman Maguire's speech on Chinese Exclusion - October 13 & 14, 1893 — and the remedy Sep 3, 2020
A "Fighting Leaflet" from another time and place, relevant today Aug 22, 2020
Single Tax Challenge Aug 22, 2020
Bengough: The Declaration of Independence Vindicated Jul 4, 2020
Terrence Powderly: On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men (Cosmopolitan, December, 1891) Apr 9, 2020
Saving for Retirement Nov 22, 2018
Having One's Cake, and Eating it Too Oct 14, 2017
Land Basis to All Business, and Machine Age and Land Value Oct 14, 2017
11 Taxing Questions, from 1916 Nov 12, 2016
James Maguire's speech in the House of Representatives: 1893-10-13 LAND MONOPOLY AND THE LABOR QUESTION Mar 3, 2016
James Maguire's speech in the House of Representatives: 1894-01-31 Direct Taxation of Land Values Mar 3, 2016
John Dewey's Foreword to Geiger's "The Philosophy of Henry George" (1933) Jul 2, 2015
The Ultimate Corporate Subsidy: The Unearned Increment May 30, 2014
Is a land value tax the solution to our housing affordability problem? Nov 26, 2013
"the collectively earned increment" Aug 1, 2013
Giving consideration to a just tax Apr 11, 2013
Basic Principles of Ground Lease Agreements – Yes, a Contract! Jan 13, 2013
Companies Exploit Tax Break for Asset Exchanges, Trial Evidence Shows - NYTimes.com Jan 8, 2013
Hugh Pentecost, on the connection between crime and poverty Jan 6, 2013
Henry George's chapter in McNeill's "The Labor Movement: The Problem of Today" (1887) Dec 19, 2012
Sprawl is Not a New Problem Dec 19, 2012
Who Benefits by Single Tax? Dec 19, 2012
Foresters Fined for Improving Town (1903) Dec 19, 2012
Baltimore Ground Rents — some history and some principles Dec 19, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 30 — Rudyard Kipling Nov 30, 2012
Land Speculation in Rural Indiana Nov 15, 2012
Corn Belt Farmland: The Newest Real Estate Bubble? : NPR Nov 13, 2012
Lower Rents as a City Slogan Oct 28, 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
The Single Tax — a succinct 1911 description Jul 27, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 27 — John Morley Jul 27, 2012
Bankrupt in California Jul 14, 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
An Address to the Churches (1899) May 27, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 23 — Simon Newcomb Apr 23, 2012
Sagacity Apr 18, 2012
Parking Revenue funds "Room for All" Apr 16, 2012
The Last Remnant of Sorcery Apr 13, 2012
Verily We Are a Great People Apr 2, 2012
The Unearned Increment — Unearned By Whom?? Earned by Whom? Mar 25, 2012
The Unearned Increment, and Land Speculation Mar 25, 2012
Bob Andelson: The Earth is the Lord's! Mar 19, 2012
Henry Ware Allen: Special Privilege Mar 19, 2012
The Land Questions: #35 — the land in the path of progress (1) 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
The Earth-for-All Calendar: February 24 — Cadwalader Golden Feb 24, 2012
Mother Earth, Boom-Bust, Free Trade, Dogs-in-the-Manger (landlordism), and widely-spread Prosperity Feb 23, 2012
The Land Questions: #22 — Infrastructure and Land Values 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
How to Bring The Cost of Housing Back within Reach of All American Families (1978) Feb 7, 2012
Mason Gaffney: An Alternative Reform Jan 22, 2012
The Opposition to Land Value Taxation Jan 22, 2012
Toward an Ethical Democratic Free Society Jan 21, 2012
Tax Incidence, Land Values and Externalities Jan 20, 2012
A Statement of Beliefs, and Purposes of the Movement Jan 20, 2012
Land Speculation Jan 19, 2012
Man and his Mother Earth Jan 9, 2012
Land Speculation, and How to Stop It Jan 5, 2012
Taxes kill jobs Dec 27, 2011
Immigration and The Land Question Dec 26, 2011
Delaware Single Tax Platform, 1896 Dec 3, 2011
Things to Tax Nov 28, 2011
Single Tax vs Socialism Nov 27, 2011
Congress: Trading stock on inside information? Nov 20, 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
Nein nein nein to the 9-9-9 tax plan - Fred Foldvary Oct 18, 2011
Another whistle-blower, ignored by authorities ... Oct 9, 2011
Taking the Professor for a Ride Sep 29, 2011
The Golden Rule: Equal Rights to all and special privileges to none Sep 20, 2011
Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4, 2011
The Population-Value of Natural Resources Jul 14, 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
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
Sharing the burden of the cost of providing public services Feb 10, 2011
Right-sized government and the REVENUE side of the budget Feb 10, 2011
Play "Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit," a UK version of "The Landlords Game" (Monopoly) Jan 23, 2011
Lizzie Magie's 1902 commentary on The Landlords' Game, on which Monopoly is based Jan 22, 2011
David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25, 2010
The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 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
Housing Choice - Help Today’s Owners or Future Buyers? Sep 5, 2010
How to End the Great Recession Sep 5, 2010
Earned Income: Public and Private Aug 29, 2010
Suburban Sprawl and the Decline of Social Capital Aug 26, 2010
Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics? | Martin Wolf's Exchange Aug 17, 2010
Borrowing on Expectations of Land Appreciation Aug 13, 2010
Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
Public Wealth and Private Wealth Aug 6, 2010
The Larger Struggle - David Brooks Jun 16, 2010
New plan to make millions in profits without any investment - PakTribune Jun 16, 2010
What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14, 2010
The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 2010
When 2+3=6, who is entitled to the "extra" 1? Apr 27, 2010
Looters in Loafers - Krugman Apr 24, 2010
NYT LTE's: It Happened on Wall St. and Main St. Apr 9, 2010
Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 2010
Mine! All Mine! Apr 8, 2010
America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 1 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 2 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
For India’s Newly Rich Farmers, Limos Won’t Do Mar 30, 2010
Boston Globe article on Little Neck, the Feoffees and the tenants Mar 21, 2010
Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
How Is The Distribution Of Wealth Determined In The United States? Mar 11, 2010
Union College Admits That It’s in Schenectady, NY Mar 9, 2010
That $1 billion acre in Manhattan Mar 9, 2010
Nation Building — abroad and at home Feb 23, 2010
America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
Which part of a house is unaffordable? Feb 12, 2010
"I Am For Men" Feb 3, 2010
Prosper California Tax Reform Initiative Jan 31, 2010
Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31, 2010
The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
The Great 18-year Real Estate Cycle Jan 30, 2010
Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
I hate to disagree with Chip Case, but I must Jan 13, 2010
Income Concentration Jan 11, 2010
First-time homebuyers as sharecroppers Nov 9, 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
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
"END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 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
1 in 5 Pennsylvania Families Lack Sufficient Income to Meet Their Most Modestly Defined Needs May 14, 2009
Update on the Little Neck (Ipswich, MA) sale by the Feoffees of Ipswich's Public Schools May 11, 2009
An Hour with the BBC World Service May 11, 2009
The Rich List May 5, 2009
People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29, 2009
Pirates threatening revenge ... Apr 13, 2009
Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12, 2009
Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
A Price for Existence Feb 15, 2009
Equal Rights Feb 14, 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
Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" Feb 5, 2009
Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 2009
Federal Gifts to Landlords Feb 2, 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
Dumbest Thing Voters Did Jan 18, 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 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
Michael Kinsley on "Progress & Poverty" Dec 6, 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
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
Americans and Mass Transit Nov 1, 2008
Fareed Zakaria: How to Spread Democracy Nov 1, 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
Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com Oct 28, 2008
Henry George was right ... Oct 15, 2008
We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15, 2008
When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 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
An Election Season Thought 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
Pres. Bush is worried about people being able to send their children to college Sep 20, 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
LA Times: Can California survive 'no new taxes'? 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
A Gem from Luke North Sep 3, 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
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
Joe Stiglitz: Turn left for growth 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
Pragmatic Politics: Proposition 13 Jul 22, 2008
Transfers of Wealth Overseas Jul 20, 2008
Cindy McCain's San Diego condo (the oldest of their 3) Jul 16, 2008
WealthandWant.com: The Wealth Concentration Tables Jul 16, 2008
Update on the Feoffees' tenants in Ipswich, Massachusetts Jul 8, 2008
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers Jul 5, 2008
Tax Analysts column: The Price of Civilization Jul 4, 2008
Leona Helmsley’s Fortune May Go to Benefit Dogs Jul 4, 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
The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
One Solution for Many Problems? Jun 8, 2008
Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28, 2008
Taxes as the Price We Pay for a Civilized Society — But What Taxes? May 28, 2008
Is LVT the answer to all our problems? May 28, 2008
The Price of Land in the New York Metropolitan Area May 15, 2008
Are you going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution? May 10, 2008
Why Smart People should shun the "FairTax" concept Apr 19, 2008
a tax reformer does the family 1040's Apr 18, 2008
California's Proposition 13 and Parcel Taxes: Adding insult to injury for new property owners Apr 13, 2008
Taxes as oppression, taxes as incentives: Alabama Apr 12, 2008
Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism Apr 4, 2008
Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Consider Public Service, Offers Tuition Break - New York Times 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
The Boom-Bust Cycle Mar 19, 2008
Earmarks, nightlights and windfalls - Individual, or Community? Mar 19, 2008
Working harder, making others richer Mar 16, 2008
The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Mar 16, 2008
The Basis of U.S. Poverty Statistics Mar 16, 2008
Guns or Butter? Our Infrastructure, or Iraq's? Mar 16, 2008
Fortunes Made in Real Estate Mar 14, 2008
Affordable housing — for all of us. What policies promote it? Mar 14, 2008
True Irish — and all of us Mar 14, 2008
Closet Georgists and Georgites: Bill Buckley, and others Mar 10, 2008
Hotel Roosevelt For Sale at $1 Billion Mar 9, 2008