... If he could, the owner would abandon the title. The government would have the title and both pay and receive the tax, making it redundant. If the owner...
... We can measure the amount of money or goods donated, but we cannot measure the benefit or utlity obtained by the recipients. The social good is not...
... ?? I assume you intended to write that it is impossible to tax land's VALUE more than its rent. Obviously, if the rent of a land parcel is $X, and the tax...
For those who are interested, the excellent Radio Open Source (www.radioopensource.org) podcast had a discussion of Iraqi oil, which also gave a fair bit of...
... That definition is not quite sufficient. Goods have no intrinsic capacity to satisfy desires. Objects satisfy desires only because an individual has some...
Roy, Land value taxation, defined as a tax charged as a percentage of (rate on) land value, is self limiting. As the tax rate increases, land value decreases....
Mark, How is it possible to have an 'infinite rate of tax'. It sounds like kids in a school yard trying to out bid each other. Million, billion, trillion, ...
... So if the government levies a tax of 50,000 (dollars, pounds, euros) on each person, that is a land tax, since we don't know the source from which each...
... Actually, it is quite sufficient, as well as being clear and accurate. ... Perhaps you can explain how any of that contradicts the definition I gave...
Sean, I don't believe I said that there cannot be an LVT rate greater that 100%. What I said was that revenue would not increase. See my reply to Mark. Thanks...
Hi Neil, Taking *your* definition of the word value in the term 'Land Value Tax' as 'market price' and assuming that you mean the market price of the ...
Roy, Excuse me if some of this sounds like a lecture. One never knows how much the correspondent knows. It is a useful exercise to articulate fully one’s ...
Hi Neil, ... Value is not market price. With LVT you can have a market price of zero even though the land has value - this is because the LVT rate causes ...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Jan 2, 2007 9:55 pm
This article in today's Daily Telegraph is likely to be followed up by an item on the BBC's Radio news programme "World at One" today at 1pm. I've given the...
... ??? No, it's a person tax (historically called a head, poll, or capitation tax), since the liability is associated with persons, not land. A tax whose...
Dave, Everyone’s a landholder now. It’s a new kind of socialism. Everyone has an almost equal right to a sporting estate. As you say, it ain’t exactly...
Mark, I find it odd that people (i.e. not just you) can make statements like "Land value is known because of the assessable rentable value of that land" when ...
Hi Neil, With regards to your latest comments below my following response... Land value is known because of the assessable rentable value of that land. In an...
Yes, unfortunately a lot of charity ends up as a subsidy for the land owning elites (hence our view that LVT is the correct solution)... albeit via the genuine...
Hey, is there anyone out there not subscribed to this newsletter? THE GEORGIST NEWS Volume Nine, Number Seven, January 1, 2007 CONTENTS: 1. Movement Business:...
Hi Neil, Your idea of what LVT is is so far from mine that it is pointless to argue about points until we have established the basics of what we are talking...
... the amount of money.<< ... We can't measure the utility of social bads. At best we can estimate financial losses. For example, if you car gets wrecked,...
On Dec 31, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Fred Foldvary wrote: We can measure the amount of money or goods donated, but we cannot measure the benefit or utlity obtained by...
... It means government should prohibit and penalize coercive harm to others, and nothing else. ... No, it prevents the evil of stealing rent that properly...
... For what it's worth, I don't know of a single philosopher of ethics who'd agree with that assessment. ... I don't agree with that either. I agree with the...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Jan 4, 2007 7:43 am
"Juries and governments also need to have some measure of the economic value of a human life." Funny, I received the following today: "By the way, the value of...
... While true, in the realm of economics, money is the only measure, eh? So, one way to measure what something is worth to someone is to ask them how much...
Hi All (well, specifically those in the UK), See below for Peter and Dan Snow's follow on documentary (tonight) from their land ownership one last year. ...
