Hi! Best Buy and Circuit City are the top two electronic chains. Best Buy has been doing very well, but Circuit City has been in bad trouble. They recently...
... Rent could go up infinitely if A pays $1000 rent to B, the $1000 is transferred back to A, and since A now has more money, B raises the rent another $1000...
... It could not. Not paying rent - for any reason - is diametrically opposed to receiving rent. It undercuts the moral argument for recovering rent in the...
... Of course, a land tax exemption does not actually "substitute an invalid right to a share of the production" at all as someone can simply acquire their...
Here is an example of how higher prices for goods get capitalized into higher land values. In this case, it is corn, as susbidies to ethanol drive up corn...
... ?? At first I assumed that must be a typo, but it seems you are serious. It is self-evident and indisputable that paying rent is diametrically opposed to...
Dan Sullivan wrote: ... benefit. ... It is not a dividend, because the excess would not be given in cash. ... Yes, but reduced by the amount of the exemption....
... I have seen no persuasive evidence that these "rack-rents" exist, outside a small number of cases where tenants are made to pay interest and depreciation...
... ?? No, your exemption would only be valid for land you either live or work on. ... I don't see any pressing reason to stop people from taking in boarders,...
See below in red. Harry ... From: LandCafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LandCafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roy Langston ... ?? Huh? Yes, of course it does. ...
... So you don't mind people getting money for nothing? After all some of the income from the above will be thanks to the land rent. Are you saying that it is...
... Yes, of course it does. Your address is recorded when you apply for a driver's license, passport, birth certificate or any other government document or...
Hi! I like this. It comes from a Canadian list. Harry ... While on his morning walk, Prime Minister John Howard falls over, has a heart attack and dies ......
Roy, I said that if Rent were collected much better land would come into use as people moved toward the city center, occupying land that is now vacant or much...
Mark Porthouse wrote: So you don't mind people getting money for nothing? Paul Metz asks: This is not at stake. Every citizen is a shareholder of Earth Inc,...
Well said, Jeff! It also undercuts the economic argument for recovering rent. Further, we have idea of how much rent there will be and won’t until we collect...
No exemptions for any reason except perhaps initially for senior citizens. ********************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los...
... ?? It's not money for nothing. In return for the money, he will have given up his right (paid for in cash or exemption voucher) to use that land...
... Hi Paul, I don' t mind at all - you're absolutely spot on. It was Roy who seems to object to it - but then he seemed to change his mind, but I'm not sure....
On the other hand, I’ve never heard of any Georgist wishing to be “a bit authoritarian” to dictate that everyone should have a patch of land and that you...
What a wonderful illustration of why we should separate Rent from rack-rent! ********************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los...
I have taken the liberty of consolidating a number of brief messages into one longer message, as the subject and author are the same in each message. ... ...
Dave, In California and some other states, senior citizens who suffer hardship can apply to have their property tax payments postponed. They become due on the...
Surely, senior citizens should not be exempted en bloc? Many are very wealthy. With the opportunity to rollover their LVT (plus interest) until the property...
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... It would be worth expanding on the above and commenting that it is true because with '10' land 9% of labour is production and 91% is the overhead of...
... Old folks should pay LVT like any other landowners. If they have low cash income, they could get a reverse mortgage annuity on their property and pay taxes...
... Great. I thought that you didn't want people to get an income from something which didn't entail doing work. ... That's fine. We agree. ... I think that...
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