Tax Reform

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Tax Reform

Shiller: Too Many Graduating Seniors Go Into Finance Sep 28, 2013
Milton Friedman on taxing land (1999 interview) Apr 30, 2013
Millionaires Consider Leaving California Over Taxes - NYTimes.com Feb 13, 2013
Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part III (1887) Jan 7, 2013
Bill Batt's testimony at Albany: Think Outside the Box! Jan 5, 2013
Taxing Church Property Dec 19, 2012
The Blue-State Income Tax Deduction Oct 31, 2012
One's "Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
Stiglitz: "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
A Right-to-Life Platform — 125 years old Aug 22, 2012
Bankrupt in California Jul 14, 2012
Our Gardenbrain Economy - NYTimes.com Jul 11, 2012
A Carbon Tax, Sensible for All - NYTimes.com Jul 5, 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
An easy way to save the world: phase out all taxes. Apr 23, 2012
The Last Remnant of Sorcery Apr 13, 2012
Verily We Are a Great People Apr 2, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 31 — Adam Smith Mar 31, 2012
The Land Questions: #40: promoting urban housing for all who want it Mar 22, 2012
Free Trade, Free Land and Free Men (1888 Brooklyn Eagle Article) Mar 10, 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: #20 Affordable Housing Feb 20, 2012
The Land Questions: #17 — Middle East Feb 17, 2012
Romney's many happy returns? Blame Congress | Reuters Feb 6, 2012
Gavin Putland: All the way with Hazlitt - as far as he goes - Jan 24, 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
The Economic and the Political; The Philosophic and the Ethical Jan 20, 2012
FDR on revenue and spending Jan 20, 2012
Romney Says His Tax Rate Is Around 15 Percent Jan 19, 2012
A Penny Post Card Jan 18, 2012
Is inequality an inevitable byproduct of growth? Dec 18, 2011
The Superficial Reformer Dec 4, 2011
Delaware Single Tax Platform, 1896 Dec 3, 2011
Things to Tax Nov 28, 2011
Are We Socialists? Nov 21, 2011
Another whistle-blower, ignored by authorities ... Oct 9, 2011
Frances Willard, anti-poverty activist Oct 4, 2011
Taking the Professor for a Ride Sep 29, 2011
LTE: Rising Rate of Poverty - NYTimes.com Sep 26, 2011
Are Public Sector Jobs, by Definition, a Drain on the Economy? Sep 24, 2011
NYT: Whatever Happened to the American Left? Sep 24, 2011
Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4, 2011
PETER MEAKIN: Let the state take land rents instead of taxes Jun 30, 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
Right-sized government and the REVENUE side of the budget Feb 10, 2011
Our System of Taxation Jan 6, 2011
What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
God bless the child that's got his own Nov 13, 2010
Wages in America (2009) Nov 10, 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
What labor unions should demand is freedom » Ventura County Star Sep 4, 2010
Earned Income: Public and Private 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
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
Aging in Place Jul 1, 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
An Inconvenient Tax Jun 5, 2010
Mother’s Eyes See Trouble With Tax Rolls May 31, 2010
So how do we reduce our reliance on oil? May 31, 2010
Which Georgist first called LVT the "least bad" tax? May 13, 2010
47 percent Apr 26, 2010
It is time for a paradigm shift on housing Apr 9, 2010
Mason Gaffney: Corporations, Democracy and the US Supreme Court Mar 20, 2010
A thought about Glenn Beck, churches and social justice Mar 13, 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
America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
The House of Tranquillity: A "Middle Class Agenda" Feb 10, 2010
"I Am For Men" Feb 3, 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
Ben Stein's Farewell to C. Lowell Harriss, professor of economics - Dec. 29, 2009 Jan 22, 2010
Middle Class Wealth Jan 18, 2010
Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 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
So is the Woodstock Generation going to fix America's most serious problems? Aug 13, 2009
NRDC: Ranking States’ Oil Vulnerability and Solutions for Change Aug 12, 2009
The Ethics of Sharecropping, Taxation ... and Theft Jul 23, 2009
"END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 2009
Is California Over-Taxed? Jun 7, 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
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
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
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
A Price for Existence Feb 15, 2009
The ‘W’ Word, Re-engaged - ["Welfare"] Feb 9, 2009
Time to simplify ... and then end ... the federal income tax 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
A Unitarian-Universalist Perspective on the Economic Crisis Jan 26, 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
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
Daily Kos: One Person's Lot is Person's Loot Dec 11, 2008
Change.gov Dec 7, 2008
Michael Kinsley on "Progress & Poverty" Dec 6, 2008
Trickle-Up Economics Nov 29, 2008
Dying of Consumption - NYT Nov 29, 2008
Should we tax action, or tax inaction? Nov 27, 2008
On a well-provisioned ship, how is it that 6% of us consume ~25% of the resources? Nov 10, 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
Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration, and Ups & Downs in Consumer Spending Nov 7, 2008
Stock Market Gyrations and Gun Purchases Nov 7, 2008
Americans and Mass Transit 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
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
When a mortgage rate adjusts, who gets what? (#2 in the Mortgage series) Sep 25, 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
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
That block in Manhattan ... Sep 17, 2008
Being born into the Landed Gentry is like holding the winning lottery ticket Sep 6, 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
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
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
Making Work Pay Enough: A Decent Standard of Living for Working Families 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
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
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
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
CA & FL account for nearly 1/3 of mortgages in foreclosure or 90 days delinquent Jun 19, 2008
Thoughts for Barack Obama 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
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
Alaska Oil Revenues Tally High Jun 8, 2008
One Solution for Many Problems? Jun 8, 2008
Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28, 2008
Taxes that protect our firefighters May 28, 2008
Taxes as the Price We Pay for a Civilized Society — But What Taxes? 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
Poverty, America's Children, and Our Future May 15, 2008
Are you going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution? 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
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
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
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
Getting Poverty Wrong, by Steven Malanga, City Journal 3/21/08 Mar 30, 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 80/20 Rule — and its misapplications Mar 19, 2008
The Boom-Bust Cycle 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
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
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
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
Robert Reich's NYT column "Totally Spent" Feb 15, 2008