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Privilege

• The Question Before the People, Henry George's election-year speech, San Francisco, 1876-08-15 Sep 13, 2020
• Congressman Maguire's speech on Chinese Exclusion - October 13 & 14, 1893 — and the remedy Sep 3, 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
• The Landlord's Game: a 1911 LTE, likely from Lizzie Magie Feb 27, 2020
• Thorold Rogers: Anarchy the Offspring of Privilege Jul 7, 2018
• Liberty a Principle, Not a Privilege Jul 7, 2018
• Another Wise LTE, from 1932 Oct 14, 2017
• It's Milk That Makes the Cream ... Dec 12, 2016
• A 1927 article on Taxation Dec 10, 2016
• The Henry George Idea in One Hundred Words Feb 14, 2016
• Harry Gunnison Brown, on privilege Nov 11, 2015
• George Bernard Shaw: 1885 speech on private property and privilege Nov 3, 2013
• Working, Begging or Stealing; Workers, Beggars or Thieves — and putting one's family first Sep 29, 2013
• Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28, 2013
• The Charitable-Industrial Complex Jul 27, 2013
• a response to Joe Stiglitz's "A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent" Apr 18, 2013
• Gems from George: Power of Thought - Special Interests Feb 23, 2013
• Is "growing the pie" sufficient? Feb 17, 2013
• Inequalities Feb 10, 2013
• Ethics of Piracy Feb 9, 2013
• Taxi Medallions and Rent-Seeking Jan 25, 2013
• Louis F. Post on Laissez faire (1909) Jan 24, 2013
• 1909's Dangerous Subversive; Rents and Davos; the Skivers and Shirkers Jan 23, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 12 — Cushman Jan 12, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 9 — Rousseau Jan 9, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 8 — Allen Jan 8, 2013
• Henry George, on intemperance, liquor taxes and poverty Jan 7, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 7 — Renan Jan 7, 2013
• Why don't we tax away economic rent instead of taxing production? Dec 29, 2012
• Everybody is out of town ... Dec 19, 2012
• Philosophicus, on the FIRE sector Dec 19, 2012
• Henry George's chapter in McNeill's "The Labor Movement: The Problem of Today" (1887) Dec 19, 2012
• Who Benefits by Single Tax? Dec 19, 2012
• Tom Johnson, on the Earth, and privilege Dec 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 17 — Carlyle Dec 17, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 16 — Grant Allen Dec 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 5 — Sismondi Dec 5, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 1 — Thorold Rogers Dec 1, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 19 — Rawlinson Nov 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 18 — Ebenezer Jones Nov 18, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 16 — Crabbe Nov 16, 2012
• Want Less Inequality? Tax It Nov 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 15 — O'Reilly Nov 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: November 9 — Bossuet Nov 9, 2012
• Harpers: Monopoly is Theft Oct 25, 2012
• Private contributions and public ones Oct 24, 2012
• Our Daughters and Sons, and Opportunity Oct 24, 2012
• That acre in Manhattan Oct 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 5 — Spencer Oct 5, 2012
• On Wages, from an 1887 weekly ... and relevant in 2012 America Oct 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 2 — Jefferies Oct 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 1 — Emerson Oct 1, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 30 — Exodus and the Bishop of Meath Sep 30, 2012
• The Church(es) in Politics Sep 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 13 — Winstanley Sep 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 12 — Grant Allen Sep 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 8 — Sir Thomas More Sep 8, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 6 — A. R. Wallace Sep 6, 2012
• One's "Fair Share" Sep 4, 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
• Devyr: Thoughts addressed to every true and brave man (1882) Aug 26, 2012
• A Right-to-Life Platform — 125 years old Aug 22, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 19 — Adam Smith and Jefferson Aug 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 18 — Pascal Aug 18, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 16 — Necker Aug 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 15 — Rousseau Aug 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 7 — Thorold Rogers and Ede Aug 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 31 - John Stuart Mill Jul 31, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 30 — Wallace Jul 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 29 — Ecclesiastes Jul 29, 2012
• The Single Tax — a succinct 1911 description Jul 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 27 — John Morley Jul 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 26 — Walker Jul 26, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 24 — Burke Jul 24, 2012
• Bankrupt in California Jul 14, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 10 — Goldsmith Jul 10, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 9 — anonymous — Chants of Labor Jul 9, 2012
• 1886 and 2012 — what has changed? Jul 7, 2012
• A Carbon Tax, Sensible for All - NYTimes.com Jul 5, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 30 Jun 30, 2012
• Florence A. Burleigh: Who Are the Anarchists? (1902) Jun 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 19 — John Stuart Mill Jun 19, 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
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 13 — Paine and Marmontel Jun 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 12 — Goldsmith Jun 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 9 — John Stuart Mill Jun 9, 2012
• From "The Price of Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz on the 1 Percent Problem | Vanity Fair Jun 8, 2012
• Royalties on Natural Resources on Federal Lands, dropping from 6% to 2% Jun 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 28 — Froude May 28, 2012
• Henry George's teaching in a nutshell May 26, 2012
• From "The New Earth," December 1899 May 25, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 12 — Adam Smith May 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 11 — Gibbon May 11, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: May 3 — Horace Greeley May 3, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 30 — Henry George Apr 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 29 — Newman Apr 29, 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 3 — Tolstoy Apr 3, 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 Unearned Increment — Unearned By Whom?? Earned by Whom? Mar 25, 2012
• The Revolutionary Tendencies of the Age Mar 22, 2012
• Henry Ware Allen: Special Privilege Mar 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 11 - Pope Gregory the Great Mar 11, 2012
• The Land Questions: #37 Mar 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 2 — Coleridge Mar 2, 2012
• The Land Questions: #30 — Public Lands Mar 1, 2012
• The Land Questions: #29 — Selling the Toll Roads Feb 29, 2012
• The Land Questions: #28: Coastal Homeowners Insurance Feb 28, 2012
• Earnings and findings — earned and unearned income Feb 27, 2012
• Another motto: Save the Rent for Society Feb 26, 2012
• A Tariff for Revenue Feb 22, 2012
• The value of land is the day-to-day product of the community Feb 22, 2012
• The Land Questions #19 — Beaches Feb 19, 2012
• The Land Questions #18 — Gambling Feb 18, 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: #11 — Ports Feb 11, 2012
• The Land Questions: #10 — Broadcast Frequencies Feb 10, 2012
• The Land Questions: #6 — Airwaves, Spectrum Feb 6, 2012
• The Land Questions: #4 — Natural Resources Feb 4, 2012
• Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
• The Land Questions: #2 Airports Feb 2, 2012
• Mason Gaffney: An Alternative Reform Jan 22, 2012
• Toward an Ethical Democratic Free Society Jan 21, 2012
• Land Speculation Jan 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 16: Emile Zola Jan 16, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 15 — Joaquin Miller Jan 15, 2012
• Today's economic problems aren't new Jan 8, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: January 3 — Mark Twain Jan 3, 2012
• Immigration and The Land Question Dec 26, 2011
• Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself. - NYTimes.com Dec 26, 2011
• "It was there for the taking" Dec 18, 2011
• Is inequality an inevitable byproduct of growth? Dec 18, 2011
• Delaware Single Tax Platform, 1896 Dec 3, 2011
• Things to Tax Nov 28, 2011
• Congress: Trading stock on inside information? Nov 20, 2011
• The mathematical law that shows why wealth flows to the 1% Nov 18, 2011
• Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 2011
• William A. Niskanen, a Blunt Libertarian Economist, Dies at 78 Nov 2, 2011
• How Wealth Concentrates: The Dartmouth College Case Decision Nov 1, 2011
• Wealth Concentration data Oct 16, 2011
• 0-0-0-0-100 Oct 15, 2011
• Another whistle-blower, ignored by authorities ... Oct 9, 2011
• The Owners of the United States Oct 6, 2011
• Economic Indicator: Westport, CT, teardowns Oct 2, 2011
• What's an intact tire and your car's alignment worth to you, per year? Sep 25, 2011
• The Golden Rule: Equal Rights to all and special privileges to none Sep 20, 2011
• The FIRE sector Sep 19, 2011
• Robert Reich: Jobs Will Follow a Strengthening of the Middle Class Sep 18, 2011
• Stock Market Gyrations Aug 18, 2011
• THE RIOTS Aug 9, 2011
• Why they might hate us May 6, 2011
• Flies and horses, vines and pines ... May 3, 2011
• High Salaries: Are they earned? Feb 26, 2011
• Justice, Order — what do we value? Feb 25, 2011
• Pen's Parade: do you realize we're mostly dwarves? Feb 21, 2011
• Thinking about taxes and jobs Feb 16, 2011
• Riches from real estate: cui bono? Feb 10, 2011
• Sources of great fortunes 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
• Progress, Charity, — and Justice Jan 16, 2011
• 1915 Commission's report and 2011's scenario Jan 8, 2011
• Great fortunes and the rest of us Jan 6, 2011
• Movements for improving the condition of the unemployed Jan 6, 2011
• The New Nobility Jan 6, 2011
• Are Large Fortunes Legitimate? Jan 6, 2011
• Few Fortunes Survive Three Generations? Jan 6, 2011
• A Convention Prayer Jan 5, 2011
• Capitalism? Socialism? Try “privilegism” « Just Liberty Dec 30, 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
• Additional thoughts on Norton and Ariely's paper Nov 14, 2010
• Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 2010
• One Nation, Two Deficits — and how to fix things 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
• Krugman: Fear and Favor Oct 4, 2010
• FIRE Sector Strikes Again: Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love Sep 13, 2010
• Earned Income: Public and Private Aug 29, 2010
• Who is entitled to Ground Rent? The Vicar's Wife, or someone(s) else? Aug 28, 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
• Learning To Get Out Of The Way « Aldous Huxley | This I Believe Aug 15, 2010
• Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
• David Stockman - Four Deformations of the Apocalypse Aug 7, 2010
• Stimulating the Well-Off to Stimulate the Economy Aug 6, 2010
• The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis, by Josh Kosman Aug 6, 2010
• Joe Stiglitz: the people are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer Jul 29, 2010
• The Woodpeckers' Tree System Jul 23, 2010
• Wealth concentration in China exceeds US Jul 7, 2010
• Why Do People Become Terrorists? Jul 1, 2010
• Income Mobility and the Persistence Of Millionaires, 1999 to 2007 Jun 23, 2010
• The Landlord's Prayer — Archer's version Jun 18, 2010
• William Allan's Landlord's Prayer Jun 18, 2010
• The Larger Struggle - David Brooks Jun 16, 2010
• New plan to make millions in profits without any investment - PakTribune Jun 16, 2010
• The oil and gas billionaire, and estate taxes Jun 14, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
• Mother’s Eyes See Trouble With Tax Rolls May 31, 2010
• The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 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
• Hope rises for real financial reform - WaPo Apr 24, 2010
• Crosby: Democracy Apr 21, 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
• 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
• America's Wealth Distribution 2007 — Wealth Concentration — part 3 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• Elizabeth Warren: Behind Consumer Agency Idea, a Fiery Advocate Mar 30, 2010
• Monopoly History Mar 30, 2010
• Moses Mar 30, 2010
• Boston Globe article on Little Neck, the Feoffees and the tenants Mar 21, 2010
• Mason Gaffney: Corporations, Democracy and the US Supreme Court Mar 20, 2010
• Land in Manhattan Mar 19, 2010
• Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
• How Is The Distribution Of Wealth Determined In The United States? Mar 11, 2010
• Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9, 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
• The Top 400, and the Rest of Us Feb 22, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• The Monkeys Disgrace 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
• 10 of the largest endowments in N.E. Jan 31, 2010
• Remembering Howard Zinn Jan 31, 2010
• Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31, 2010
• "The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31, 2010
• The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
• Why I Bother Jan 26, 2010
• Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
• The Feoffees, the Ipswich School Committee and the TENANTS of Little Neck Jan 23, 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
• Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 2010
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• Wealth Concentration data Jan 11, 2010
• Income Concentration Jan 11, 2010
• 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
• So is the Woodstock Generation going to fix America's most serious problems? Aug 13, 2009
• Conservatism Aug 5, 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
• "END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 2009
• Is California Over-Taxed? Jun 7, 2009
• High and Low Finance - 2005 Tax Break for Repatriated Funds Didn’t Work as Billed Jun 5, 2009
• What You Get for... $465,000 - NYTimes.com Jun 3, 2009
• Thou shalt not suffer thyself or anybody else to be stolen from May 23, 2009
• Land and Freedom May 23, 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
• Update on the Little Neck (Ipswich, MA) sale by the Feoffees of Ipswich's Public Schools May 11, 2009
• Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us ... May 11, 2009
• An Hour with the BBC World Service 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
• 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
• Pirates threatening revenge ... Apr 13, 2009
• Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12, 2009
• Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 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
• A Price for Existence 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
• Who is entitled to the economic rent on Bolivia's trove of lithium? Feb 2, 2009
• The definition of Chutzpah Jan 29, 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
• NYT: Property Values - What You Get for ... $850,000 Jan 21, 2009
• Dumbest Thing Voters Did Jan 18, 2009
• The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17, 2009
• Auditing Madoff's investors Jan 2, 2009
• Madoff Greatest Ponzi Scheme? Real Estate Magnitudes Greater — The Inspired Economist Dec 30, 2008
• The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 2008
• "Miles Per Gallon" is the wrong measuring stick! Dec 27, 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
• 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
• 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
• How do we reduce the demand for energy? Nov 10, 2008
• Ben Franklin, technological progress and moral progress Nov 7, 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
• 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
• 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
• Rich in Natural Resources Oct 2, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part I: how does the US compare to the rest of the world Sep 28, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part II: Natural Resources and Ownership Sep 28, 2008
• When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 2008
• Those Shareholders who are being wiped out ... who are they? - or, "How's it trickling?" 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
• 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
• David Cay Johnston: The Prospering Swedes Sep 18, 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
• 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
• 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
• Joe Stiglitz: Turn left for growth Aug 26, 2008
• Why are the Working Poor Poor? Aug 26, 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
• 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
• 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
• David Cay Johnston doesn't get it — yet Jun 25, 2008
• Orthodox Anglicans hint schism, stop short of split Jun 25, 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
• A Budget is a Moral Document Jun 16, 2008
• Ross Perot, Back On the Charts Jun 16, 2008
• The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
• McCain, Obama stake out divergent paths on taxes - Yahoo! News Jun 10, 2008
• Joseph Stiglitz: Revise Taxation to Combat Scarcity in an Age of Plenty Jun 10, 2008
• The Landlord's Prayer Jun 10, 2008
• Oil, Land, Water — who among us is entitled to privatize their value? Jun 8, 2008
• Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28, 2008
• The Price of Land in the New York Metropolitan Area May 15, 2008
• Poverty, America's Children, and Our Future May 15, 2008
• Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: Rafe Esquith sort of sees it! 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
• a tax reformer does the family 1040's Apr 18, 2008
• The Purpose of Government 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
• Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism Apr 4, 2008
• Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us 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
• Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Consider Public Service, Offers Tuition Break - New York Times Mar 30, 2008
• Americans and Golf, and the local assessor 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 Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Mar 30, 2008
• Who Should Get the Land Rent? Mar 30, 2008
• Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Mar 28, 2008
• Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Mar 25, 2008
• The FairTax, and why it isn't fair or wise Mar 23, 2008
• The 80/20 Rule — and its misapplications 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 Basis of U.S. Poverty Statistics Mar 16, 2008
• True Irish — and all of us Mar 14, 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
• CBO Study: The Deductibility of State and Local Taxes Mar 4, 2008
• Financing Municipal Spending through Sales Taxes: an Inferior "Solution" Mar 4, 2008
• Who Should Get the Land Rent? Mar 2, 2008
• Private (homeowner) Associations, their Private Beaches, and the Local Assessor Mar 1, 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
• "An Open Field and a Fair Chance": Abraham Lincoln and Henry George Feb 23, 2008
• Assessments that favor the big landholders Feb 23, 2008