LinkedIn Felix Bopp has sent you a message. Date: 5/21/2012 Subject: May 31: ‘the future of Taxes’ Dear Friends of the Club of Amsterdam Join our dialogue...
... But how do we calculate how much they owe? Tariffs, as normally understood, are not well suited to making that calculation because they are imposed based...
... Well, I didn't know it was "Roy's" plan! So far as I know, a version of this has only been written into proposed bills in Maryland (2005, eg HB842) - where...
If the fisking bother recipients, consider this an archive item. Quoting Scott on the Spot on Mon, 21 May 2012 14:33:32 -0000: ___SSBaker___ We've had these...
... Could you track down the actual language of that bill and post a link to it, or post the relevant passages here? ... By George, he's got it! -- Roy...
Scott, Money began as a natural outcome of the market. Animal skins, wampum - even gold - became money because they could be used as money and were accepted as...
Hello Roy and thank you for the response. To Mattbieker, thank you and point taken ;) ... Nothing for something would apply in the case with a CD funded by...
Here is the equivocation, I think, in your argument. You claim "why should we preference consumption of land over consumption of food, clothing or whatever." ...
Harry - Commodity-backed money has been a disaster everywhere it's been applied, including in the U.S.; the U.S. has experimented with just about every kind of...
Ed Dodson here: I do not think I am the only person who sometimes finds it difficult to follow the chain of exchanges that occur. Comments are made without any...
JDK Here: (as is evident the "from" line, why people don't use email address that reflect there actual name I have never understood) ... To whom are you...
... As a fellow land taxer I agree with you on the nature of land obviously, and calling it consumption was a simplification. But i think "spending" covers...
I don't care how you respond nor the format. Throwing collected rent into the sea is a dumb idea. The point that Harry purportedly is making (the prevention of...
Was: [LandCafe] Re: Micome experiment in Canada in the 1970s Quoting jdk_maryland_atty on Thu, 24 May 2012 19:47:05 -0000: ___JDK___ Throwing collected rent...
... It is indeed a very different exercise, but one's right to liberty is not nothing. When people aggregate in a settled society where fixed improvements are...
... I agree, we don't want to tax labour or returns on real wealth. ... It's not the purpose, only if you decouple the land rent share to any legel requirement...
... I've spent time being born into a family of people chronically unemployed, prone to be put on disability and frequently using drugs. This in a society with...
Kj here re-responding to my own post to Roy ... Sorry, let me rephrase this, I was writing when thinking and my class background makes that a hard task. A UE...
... And with a lot of government help. ... With respect, regardless of your background, you are self-evidently not among the not-very-smart, and I frankly do...
Kj here ... You are letting your "as a matter of fact"-attitude towards a section of the low-income population cloud the fact that people have been increasing...
... No, it's much easier to use a CD as cash, because it IS cash. Using a UIE as cash requires finding someone willing to barter what you want for reduced LVT...
... " I think full collection of rent and dishing it out again as a CD is simpler," JDK: What is simple about that?. First, it is politically a dead as a door...
... SB> At least it beats throwing it into wars of conquest! JDK:Well, if we had our act together to see the benefits of land value taxation, one would think...
John, Scott, Do get it right! The point made is that it would be better to collect Rent and throw it in the sea than not collect it at all. In other words, the...
Kj here ... That's not a concern of mine when discussing what is a just solution or not, if I was particulary worried about political opportunism, I wouldn't...
