Land Value Taxation

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Land Value Taxation

Dr. McGlynn's Lesson from the 1886 New York City Election Jul 5, 2023
A "Fighting Leaflet" from another time and place, relevant today Aug 22, 2020
Single Tax Challenge Aug 22, 2020
Terrence Powderly: On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men (Cosmopolitan, December, 1891) Apr 9, 2020
The Single Tax: An Essay on the Single Tax in 50 Words Mar 31, 2020
1890-01-10 New York Times editorial on Land Value Taxation: The Taxation Question Nov 13, 2019
Saving for Retirement Nov 22, 2018
John Farrell, The Philosophy of the Single Tax, Part I: About Current Politics Jul 9, 2018
John Farrell, The Philosophy of the Single Tax, Part X: In Conclusion Jul 9, 2018
A few more thoughts from Benjamin Franklin May 11, 2018
Republican tax legislation contains a gem: Phase out mortgage deduction Mar 16, 2014
Conservatives are losing their minds over economic reforms that already exist - Salon.com Jan 7, 2014
Is a land value tax the solution to our housing affordability problem? Nov 26, 2013
End the 1 percent’s free ride: Taxing land would solve America’s biggest problems - Salon.com Nov 24, 2013
The Forgotten Idea That Shaped Great U.S. Cities | On the Commons Nov 15, 2013
Louis F. Post on the assessment of land values Jul 14, 2013
Milton Friedman on taxing land (1999 interview) Apr 30, 2013
1909's Dangerous Subversive; Rents and Davos; the Skivers and Shirkers Jan 23, 2013
Basic Principles of Ground Lease Agreements – Yes, a Contract! Jan 13, 2013
Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part II (1887) Jan 7, 2013
Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part III (1887) Jan 7, 2013
The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 30 — Dove Dec 30, 2012
The Community is Entitled ... Dec 22, 2012
Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
Private contributions and public ones Oct 24, 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
One's "Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 5: Patrick Edward Dove Aug 5, 2012
What we propose — and the alternative Jul 14, 2012
Bankrupt in California Jul 14, 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
License fees for every worker, or tax land value for revenue? Jun 16, 2012
Resource Rentals for Revenue — The 3 R's of fixing our economy Jun 13, 2012
Bolton Hall: The Freeville Fair Jun 3, 2012
Appropriating the Gifts of Nature Apr 13, 2012
The Last Remnant of Sorcery Apr 13, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 3 — Tolstoy Apr 3, 2012
Is the Philly Land Bank Going to Be a Tool for NIMBYism? Apr 3, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 31 — Adam Smith Mar 31, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 26 - Spinoza Mar 26, 2012
Developer Inks 99-Year Lease Mar 23, 2012
Bob Andelson: The Earth is the Lord's! Mar 19, 2012
Bob Andelson: An Open Letter to Pope John Paul II Mar 19, 2012
Free Trade, Free Land and Free Men (1888 Brooklyn Eagle Article) Mar 10, 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
Earnings and findings — earned and unearned income Feb 27, 2012
The Land Questions: #27 — Financing a New Subway Line Feb 27, 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
The Land Questions #19 — Beaches Feb 19, 2012
The Land Questions: #17 — Middle East Feb 17, 2012
A 1938 NYT Letter to the Editor: Collecting Ground Rent Feb 16, 2012
The Land Questions: #16 — Paying for War Feb 16, 2012
NYT Invitation to a Dialogue - A National Service Program Feb 15, 2012
BBC - Democracy Live - Short debate: A Land Value Tax for Wales? Feb 6, 2012
Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
Wasserman: The Ethics of Land-Value Taxation Jan 29, 2012
WSJ LTE: incentives for growth in cities Jan 27, 2012
Gavin Putland: All the way with Hazlitt - as far as he goes - Jan 24, 2012
The Opposition to Land Value Taxation Jan 22, 2012
Toward an Ethical Democratic Free Society Jan 21, 2012
An American Georgist visits New Zealand, circa 1962 Jan 18, 2012
Vie Peterson on Henry George's one tax Jan 18, 2012
Man and his Mother Earth Jan 9, 2012
The Laffer Curve Jan 8, 2012
Taxes kill jobs Dec 27, 2011
The Superficial Reformer Dec 4, 2011
Delaware Single Tax Platform, 1896 Dec 3, 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
LVT vs 90-9-9 Oct 18, 2011
Forget 9-9-9. Here’s a Simple Plan: 1 Oct 15, 2011
0-0-0-0-100 Oct 15, 2011
Thomas G. Shearman: Henry George's 'Mistakes' Oct 6, 2011
Frances Willard, anti-poverty activist Oct 4, 2011
NYT: Whatever Happened to the American Left? Sep 24, 2011
The Golden Rule: Equal Rights to all and special privileges to none Sep 20, 2011
The Population-Value of Natural Resources Jul 14, 2011
Tax property, not people, for a fairer society May 2, 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
Sharing the burden of the cost of providing public services Feb 10, 2011
An early ad for The Landlord's Game Jan 23, 2011
What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
Thy Kingdom Come! Nov 14, 2010
Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 2010
Get Rich Quick Scheme Nov 7, 2010
One Nation, Two Deficits — and how to fix things Oct 15, 2010
Quarter days Sep 23, 2010
FIRE Sector Strikes Again: Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love Sep 13, 2010
Housing Choice - Help Today’s Owners or Future Buyers? 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
Public Wealth and Private Wealth Aug 6, 2010
How to help the country recover from a financial earthquake » Ethical Economics » Shepheard-Walwyn Book Publishers Aug 6, 2010
Joe Stiglitz: the people are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer Jul 29, 2010
Greater Fools Jul 5, 2010
The Larger Struggle - David Brooks Jun 16, 2010
Paying for Transportation Infrastructure is simple Jun 5, 2010
Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
The Republican Journal: The only fair tax Jun 2, 2010
Which Georgist first called LVT the "least bad" tax? May 13, 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
Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 2010
Struggling Governments Get Creative to Raise Income Mar 19, 2010
Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
How should we-the-people pay for ... snow removal? Feb 15, 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
Why I Bother Jan 26, 2010
Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
First-time homebuyers as sharecroppers Nov 9, 2009
Follow the Money: A Close Look at Recent Southern California Foreclosures Aug 18, 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
PARABLE OF THE OFFICE BUILDING Jul 21, 2009
"END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 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
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
The UK Rich List — some additional thoughts — with reference to America, as well May 9, 2009
The Rich List May 5, 2009
Council of Georgist Organizations Conference: Cleveland 2009 May 5, 2009
People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29, 2009
How Do We Fix an Ailing Economy? Apr 12, 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
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
Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
Time to simplify ... and then end ... the federal income tax 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
Statistics of Income: Mortgage Interest and Real Estate Taxes 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
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
Eisenhower's roads to prosperity Jan 2, 2009
Madoff Greatest Ponzi Scheme? Real Estate Magnitudes Greater — The Inspired Economist Dec 30, 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
What free markets? Dec 3, 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
Should we tax action, or tax inaction? Nov 27, 2008
Leo Tolstoy — The Last Station — and Henry George Nov 18, 2008
Mason Gaffney: "The Great Crash of 2008" — and how we can dig out and head off the next one Nov 10, 2008
High-Income Households ... some additional SCF data, relevant to Obama's SS tax options Nov 9, 2008
Americans and Mass Transit Nov 1, 2008
That acre in midtown Manhattan: $800 million — as a teardown! 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
Bob Herbert: A Fool’s Paradise 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
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
Rich in Natural Resources Oct 2, 2008
Pulitzer Prize Winner Stresses Ethical Taxation Oct 1, 2008
Assessing Land Values Sep 28, 2008
When I am elected President ... 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
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
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
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
David Cay Johnston: Can You Hear Opportunity Knocking? Aug 26, 2008
Joe Stiglitz: Turn left for growth Aug 26, 2008
Why are the Working Poor Poor? 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
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
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
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers Jul 5, 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
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
Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19, 2008
The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
The Landlord's Prayer Jun 10, 2008
Oil, Land, Water — who among us is entitled to privatize their value? Jun 8, 2008
One Solution for Many Problems? Jun 8, 2008
Taxes that protect our firefighters May 28, 2008
Is LVT the answer to all our problems? May 28, 2008
Krugman: Stranded in Suburbia - New York Times May 19, 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
Vallejo, California, Officials Vote for Bankruptcy May 10, 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
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
Why Smart People should shun the "FairTax" concept Apr 19, 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
Contra Costa Times OpEd — End the property tax Apr 13, 2008
Taxes as oppression, taxes as incentives: Alabama Apr 12, 2008
Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism Apr 4, 2008
Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Apr 1, 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
Affordable housing — for all of us. What policies promote it? Mar 31, 2008
Americans and Golf, and the local assessor Mar 30, 2008
Assessments that favor the big landholders Mar 30, 2008
Connecticut: Downtown Sprawl, Property Assessments and Getting the Incentives Right Mar 30, 2008
Financing Municipal Spending through Sales Taxes: an Inferior "Solution" Mar 30, 2008
Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 30, 2008
Private (homeowner) Associations, their Private Beaches, and the Local Assessor Mar 30, 2008
Redirecting Sprawl Mar 30, 2008
Who Should Get the Land Rent? Mar 30, 2008
Revitalizing older cities 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
The Colorado Self-Sufficiency Standard, 2008 Mar 26, 2008
Connecticut: Should Cities Use a Sales Tax? Mar 25, 2008
Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Mar 25, 2008
Connecticut: Should Cities Use a Sales Tax? Mar 25, 2008
The FairTax, and why it isn't fair or wise Mar 23, 2008
Did someone yell "FIRE" sector? Bailouts for whose benefit?? Mar 19, 2008
The Boom-Bust Cycle Mar 19, 2008
FCC Raises Record $19.6 Billion In Auction of Wireless Airwaves - washingtonpost.com Mar 19, 2008
ConservativeHome's Platform: Mark Wadsworth: Time to look at Land Value Tax? 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
Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Mar 15, 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
Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? (NYT, 3/9/08) Mar 9, 2008
Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 7, 2008
Affordable Family Formation and Values Voters: Social Values, or Land Values? Mar 4, 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
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
How do we eliminate poverty? Feb 19, 2008
Wealthandwant.com Feb 14, 2008
Why "LVTFan"? Feb 14, 2008