... If the charge is a voluntary user fee, that's fine. But it's not clear what you refer to as a "new tax". How would the military be paid for? Fred Foldvary...
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Paul Metz
metz@...
Sep 1, 2004 12:49 pm
Paul Metz to Fred Foldvary and other visitors: 1. No, voluntary payments are charity: always welcome, never structural. 2. In most cases the LVT will be a new...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Sep 1, 2004 12:49 pm
I understand that Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor during the Clinton Administration, former defeated Democratic Primary candidate for Governor of...
Hello everyone The European Social Forum's organisers have now opened up applications for stalls at the ESF at Alexandra Palace in London on 14-17 Oct 2004...
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Paul Metz
metz@...
Sep 1, 2004 2:05 pm
Paul Metz writes to Chris Meakin: This is a key question: what means "privatisation" ? I am not an expert and hope for some inputs to this debate. ...
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Paul Metz
metz@...
Sep 1, 2004 2:11 pm
sorry, now with the quote I planned to include ! Paul Metz writes to Chris Meakin: This is a key question: what means "privatisation" ? I am not an expert and...
Sounds good to me. All we need to be sure is that as an Open Society no-punches pulled organization that The Commons is always free of any political...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Sep 1, 2004 2:17 pm
Paul Metz writes: "In most cases the LVT will be a new tax. Of course it would be ideal to start with a high rate and substitute one or more existing taxes....
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Sep 1, 2004 5:44 pm
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Sep 2, 2004 11:31 am
Received from and "umi umi" <umi@...> via Alanna Hartzok (Pa; USA) Hi, These two projects deal with land value data statistics: The University of...
... That is a different definition of voluntary from the one Fred is using. Contracts are voluntary, but not charitable. Thus, a voluntary payment to ...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Sep 3, 2004 8:48 am
... From: Carol Wilcox [mailto:wilcox@...] Sent: 02 September 2004 20:45 To: All who wish to improve the Planet Hello Dear Friends This is Carol...
Dear fellow land-taxers, I'd like to join. I've induced 20 localities in the U.S. to actually shift some of their local property tax on building assessments...
Hello, The following person would like to join the LandCafe group: Email address: changwhanmo <changwhanmo@...> Comment from user: I am a research fellow...
Mark, As we know, labels are less important than common sense. The market price mechanism is by far the best way to allocate resources. I doubt that there are...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Sep 7, 2004 1:02 pm
An interesting contribution from Mark Brown to the debate about smallholders and LVT from the "Diggers" yahoo group. Dave Wetzel ... From: Mark Brown Sent: 06...
The following person would like to join the LandCafe group: Email address: landtax1 <landtax1@...> Comment from user: I am a member of the Labor Party...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Sep 7, 2004 3:21 pm
Anzir Boodoo [ <mailto:member@...> mailto:member@...] wrote: "Am I missing something (not being an...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Sep 8, 2004 7:14 am
I met Stephen Hogan and Lee Searles from the LGA last Friday. They drew my attention to this consultation document. It is important that as many people as feel...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Sep 9, 2004 9:27 am
Joe Casey [mailto:jmcasey@...] Writes: For LVT to be effective in eliminating "freehold value" as you define it, LVT should be applied to total market...
Well I agree with all this. My difficulty is that if LVT is set at 100% of current rental value and is updated every year there ceases to be any market for...
Ed Dodson with a comment.... A technical problem associated with implementation of LVT is said by some to be the absence of data on leasehold values for land...
For me LVT is a non-starter as it involves taxing the only means we have to feed ourselves - churchill supported the idea in 1909 and its as bad an idea now as...
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Mason Gaffney
m.gaffney@...
Sep 9, 2004 3:26 pm
Excellent point by Ed Dodson. Amen. Here is a case in point. Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, contains about 17 different municipalities, including the City of...
Terence, I'm sure you are not suggesting two, three, four sets of pipes supplying water to the same area. The test for my suggestion would be 'will...
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Mason Gaffney
m.gaffney@...
Sep 11, 2004 4:38 pm
Hooray for Harry, he's working out from under his radical anarchist ("libertarian" is the modern euphemism) overload. Now, if the rest of us can only do as...
... Labor is the means to feed ourselves. Land rent is a pure surplus; if it goes to the title holder, and it feeds him, this just relieves him of engaging in...
... But it might also raise the quality, or it might provide a different type of water, or it might raise the quantity at a small additional cost. ... ...
... ownership will ... First of all, if 100% is collected, it is only the economic land rent, not the total rental paid by a tenant. The rental includes...
