... Because company directors are mostly rich, privileged landowners, and the social circles they move in consist mainly of rich, privileged landowners....
... Harry, One thing Kevin Cahill in his book Who Owns Britain homed in on, was that the landed wealthy did an excellent job as hiding their land and wealth....
... Roy, "productive companies are exquisitely vulnerable to economic ostracism". I don't quite get that. Less or zero Corporation tax would have companies...
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/2011/10/killer-arguments-against-lvt-not-166_13.html I like Mark Wadsworth's definition of LVT: "LVT actually means "LOCATION...
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David Reed
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Nov 1, 2011 9:09 am
In the UK, industrialists like Rowntree were keen on LVT and formed a powerful bloc in the Liberal Party. Come the advent of the Labour Party and for ,purely...
Whilst you may be right about other dynastic industrialists, I'm not sure you are about Rowntree. To this day the various family trusts are the biggest...
... <<<< Jock, the Rowntree Foundation gave grants to those who form bodies which support LVT. The Labour Land Campaign had support from them. I'm sure the...
... But!!! Even in the USA, which does not have the political/social/class history of the UK, I see no overall screaming from companies wanting LVT to replace...
... Roy, I no doubt think there is some truth in what you write, however it is quite lame. Are all companies, massive and small, so ignorant of LVT?...
... I don't think you quite understood my response. JRT remain the largest contributors to the entire Lib Dem party. I'm not talking about small grants to...
At a national level, corporations have never been presented with the idea of replacing the Corp Income Tax (about which all with hear is Republicans bitching...
... I wonder if an additional political problem is that when capital and labor are on the same side in other arenas, consumers and environmentalists better...
... Again, they've found lots of ways of avoiding corporate taxes without bothering about LVT. There was big news in the U.S. a few months back when it was...
Right, except this post has the kind of imprecision that is a problem. LVT would NOT cause them to pay taxes on their "mansions"! Maybe on the land beneath...
... No, of course it doesn't; Harry is just keeping a fine competitive edge on his absurdity skills. ... No, of course I don't. That is nothing but a ...
Yes of course (and I'm terribly sorry for that imprecision), but in this context that correction makes no difference whatever. The point I was making is that...
I saw the documentary film "American Teacher" last night. Of course the issue of inadequate teachers' salaries was the central theme repeated in every scene....
I rather think, David, that the Georgist in advocating Justice is opposed to all privilege, of which the most pervasive is the land privilege. As you know, a...
I wasn't too happy when the Liberals joined with the Social Democrats, but I was 6,000 miles away and it wasn't my concern. The Lib-Dems kept LVT - did they...
Walter, Labor here does not mean union workers but is a Factor of Production covering all kinds of productive human exertion. Capital refers to wealth used in...
The following exchange took place: "> RL No, they pay rent equal to the advantage that the ... RL No, of course I don't. But you just said that rent is...
... In most cases, there is a competing firm that the privileged can have their firms deal with instead. A rent seeking operation doesn't have to worry about ...
... The most productive PROSPECTIVE user is not always the ACTUAL occupier and user. The former takes his own productivity into account when calculating how ...
Walter said: "when the spokespeople for capital and labor are united, duck." That's also a fair point, but the Factors of Production - Labor and Capital -...
... More importantly, which is easier: trying to change the entire tax system from the ground up, or simply adapting your business model to take advantage of...
Roy, There is no such thing as "willing to pay" with regard to land. In this case of a monopoly which is absolutely essential to survival, one pays whatever...
... No, he didn't, because they aren't. Each person who ALREADY OWNS the land they live on gets to live on it tax-free. But that is obviously a tax BREAK...
