Unburdening the Economy

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Unburdening the Economy

Land Basis to All Business, and Machine Age and Land Value Oct 14, 2017
It's Milk That Makes the Cream ... Dec 12, 2016
Louis F. Post on Laissez faire (1909) Jan 24, 2013
Basic Principles of Ground Lease Agreements – Yes, a Contract! Jan 13, 2013
Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part III (1887) Jan 7, 2013
Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
That acre in Manhattan Oct 21, 2012
Who Are the Job Creators? Oct 3, 2012
One's "Fair Share" Sep 4, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 5: Patrick Edward Dove Aug 5, 2012
Appropriating the Gifts of Nature Apr 13, 2012
Verily We Are a Great People Apr 2, 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
The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 26 - Spinoza Mar 26, 2012
The Unearned Increment, and Land Speculation Mar 25, 2012
The Land Questions: #27 — Financing a New Subway Line Feb 27, 2012
Mother Earth, Boom-Bust, Free Trade, Dogs-in-the-Manger (landlordism), and widely-spread Prosperity Feb 23, 2012
The Land Questions: #21 — Paying for Transportation Infrastructure Feb 21, 2012
The Land Questions #18 — Gambling Feb 18, 2012
The Land Questions: #13 — Electric Utilities Feb 13, 2012
Mason Gaffney: An Alternative Reform 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
A Statement of Beliefs, and Purposes of the Movement Jan 20, 2012
Is inequality an inevitable byproduct of growth? Dec 18, 2011
Things to Tax Nov 28, 2011
Are We Socialists? Nov 21, 2011
Are Public Sector Jobs, by Definition, a Drain on the Economy? Sep 24, 2011
Flies and horses, vines and pines ... May 3, 2011
Tax property, not people, for a fairer society May 2, 2011
A Better Way to Do Housing Apr 11, 2011
Thinking about taxes and jobs Feb 16, 2011
Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10, 2011
Sharing the burden of the cost of providing public services Feb 10, 2011
1915 Commission's report and 2011's scenario Jan 8, 2011
Great fortunes and the rest of us Jan 6, 2011
What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25, 2010
The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20, 2010
Get Rich Quick Scheme Nov 7, 2010
Krugman: Fear and Favor Oct 4, 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
What labor unions should demand is freedom » Ventura County Star Sep 4, 2010
Earned Income: Public and Private Aug 29, 2010
Suburban Sprawl and the Decline of Social Capital Aug 26, 2010
The End of Poverty? Think Again! Aug 24, 2010
Some random thoughts on Monopoly and Life Aug 21, 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
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
Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
47 percent Apr 26, 2010
Hope rises for real financial reform - WaPo 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 2 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
Elizabeth Warren: Behind Consumer Agency Idea, a Fiery Advocate Mar 30, 2010
Mason Gaffney: Corporations, Democracy and the US Supreme Court Mar 20, 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
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
Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9, 2010
Debt in America Feb 26, 2010
America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
2009Q4 Labor Underutilization Problems of US Workers by 2008 Income Decile Feb 13, 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
Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4, 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
William Jennings Bryan, on liberty and future generations Aug 5, 2009
The Ethics of Sharecropping, Taxation ... and Theft Jul 23, 2009
PARABLE OF THE OFFICE BUILDING Jul 21, 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
Land Value Taxation — Connecticut's legislature just passed enabling legislation for New London to try it! 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
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
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
Payroll Taxes Apr 8, 2009
About Land Value Taxation Apr 8, 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
The ‘W’ Word, Re-engaged - ["Welfare"] Feb 9, 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
All those billions and trillions ... how do they relate to household wealth and household income? Feb 6, 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
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
Auditing Madoff's investors 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
A Property Tax Cut Could Help Save Buffalo - WSJ.com Dec 7, 2008
Change.gov Dec 7, 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
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
Stock Market Gyrations and Gun Purchases Nov 7, 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
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
Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com 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
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
A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
Some thoughts about paying taxes... Sep 22, 2008
David Cay Johnston: The Prospering Swedes Sep 18, 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
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
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
Renters deserve a better shake - Boston Globe Aug 14, 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
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
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers Jul 5, 2008
Tax Analysts column: The Price of Civilization Jul 4, 2008
Do you own an oil company? Jul 3, 2008
David Cay Johnston doesn't get it — yet 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
Ross Perot, Back On the Charts Jun 16, 2008
The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
Why did Big Russ have to work two full-time jobs? Jun 15, 2008
McCain, Obama stake out divergent paths on taxes - Yahoo! News 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
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
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
A Few Inconvenient Truths about the Property Tax Apr 28, 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
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
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
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
The Boom-Bust Cycle Mar 19, 2008
Working harder, making others richer Mar 16, 2008
Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Mar 15, 2008
Closet Georgists and Georgites: Bill Buckley, and others Mar 10, 2008
Hotel Roosevelt For Sale at $1 Billion Mar 9, 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 Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Feb 28, 2008