nb Monopoly was invented as "The Landlords Game.See: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121997.htm On January 5, 1904, Lizzie J. Magie, a Quaker woman...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 2, 2004 2:06 pm
David Your proposal would work the same as the homestead allowance of £2m for residential owner-occupiers but would give the allowance to ALL landowners, not...
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Nov 2, 2004 2:08 pm
Dear Sir/Madam I am writing to inform you of an event we will be holding, where Tony Benn will be "in conversation with" Dr David Butler, and to ask whether it...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 4, 2004 5:13 pm
Cheers Anzir. I welcome your thoughts on this matter. I'm thinking aloud in order to placate the very objection you raise. With pure LVT the people you...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 4, 2004 5:14 pm
Cheers Kevin I agree that our current use of natural resources is unsustainable. I was in Iceland at the weekend and all their hot water and heating seems to ...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 4, 2004 5:15 pm
Your securitisation idea near tp hubs or on new lines (eg XRail) we call TIFs (Tax Incremental Financing). Did you raise the question of LVT with the IOD? (Not...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 4, 2004 5:17 pm
Cheers Kevin. I agree we need to save energy and adopt a sustainable energy policy. I am also concerned about water and agriculture. As well as oil, water is...
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Jeffery Smith [mailto...
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Nov 4, 2004 5:17 pm
Fellow geoists, Jeff Smith here; Want to participate in a conference? I'm invited to join both the advisory panel, comment on other papers, organize a panel...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 4, 2004 5:17 pm
My programme in Minneapolis: Today Thurs 4th Nov. 10am Presentation and meet with the Executive Committee and Board of Advisers of the Center for...
... Indeed it can, after a fashion. Not quite the same way as in Iceland where what comes up out of the ground is superheated because of the tectonic activity...
... What's more, I think that Iceland does indeed have a policy to be fossil fuel free for power generation in a very short time. Jock -- J1e Morrell Hall,...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 5, 2004 5:56 am
£13bn based on Don Riley's book "Taken for a Ride". Don, a South London Property Developer estimates that the increase within a 1000yard radius of each of the...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Nov 5, 2004 5:56 am
Cheers Kevin. I've just given an after lunch speech here in Minneapolis. I was talking about our London Congestion Charge and Land Value Taxation. My main...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 5, 2004 10:58 am
1. Antonia - Welcome to PLRG as one of our Vice-Presidents! (Don't forget we'll be after your brains, beauty etc. next!) 2. I thought HGF had Scotland tied up....
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Joshua Vincent
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Nov 5, 2004 2:33 pm
Heavens, I don't think ANYbody took over from Joshua Vincent, as I'm still here. Or am I stuck in a Kafka-esque nightmare and don't even know I was taken...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 6, 2004 12:43 pm
Cheers Simon Just read it. VAT would only apply when a site is sold. They already have so-called "Stamp Duty Land Tax" which does that. Kate Barker's...
I don't recall mentioning 60º. But it doesn't matter anyway, because geo-thermal systems do not rely on "raw heat" from underground, but temperature...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 9, 2004 9:56 am
Cheers Simon Just read it. VAT would only apply when a site is sold. They already have so-called "Stamp Duty Land Tax" which does that. Kate Barker's...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Nov 10, 2004 6:54 pm
... From: Cohen Arnold (Exc) Sent: 10 November 2004 14:53 To: Wetzel Dave Subject: RE: Vic Blundell: LABOUR'S FLAWED LAND ACTS 1947-1976 ENQUIRY COMMITTEES AND...
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Stuart Woodin [mailto...
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Nov 11, 2004 8:07 am
... From: Stuart Woodin [mailto:stuart.woodin@...] Sent: 09 November 2004 15:12 To: Wetzel Dave Subject: Land Value Tax Dear Dave, as a community...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Nov 12, 2004 6:31 am
I'll ask others to answer your technical questions re Council Tax Arnold Dave Dave Wetzel Vice-chair, Transport for London Windsor House, 42-50 Victoria...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 12, 2004 6:32 am
Arnold By definition tenants pay rent. If the economic rent of a site increases (not just because of new transport infrastructure, but also perhaps because of...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Nov 12, 2004 6:32 am
... From: margaret.godden [mailto:margaret.godden@...] Sent: 11 November 2004 20:31 To: Wetzel Dave; Cohen Arnold (Exc) Subject: RE: Vic Blundell:...
I'm not going to apologise, as is the custom, for "cross posting" because that would imply I'm sorry, which would be untrue. But I am sorry for not having...
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Paul Metz
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Nov 12, 2004 12:58 pm
Dear colleagues, This partly answers a need for info I have for a presentation next week on the future of farming in liberalising and sustainable EU/world...
Ed Dodson (U.S.A.) responding... Cohen Arnold wrote: Re your comments on landowners passing on the tax, I accept the pure Economics argument, but surely there...
I'm assuming this came through the Land Cafe list rather than the Diggers one so I'm replying only to LandCafe to keep the cross posting down. I've always...
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Paul Metz
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Nov 16, 2004 11:16 am
From today's GRIST - for our debate. Paul Metz WELCOME TO THE MEASURE DOME Oregon voters lash out against land-use planning For more than three decades,...
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Wetzel Dave
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Nov 16, 2004 11:18 am
Cheers Chris. If state bodies had to pay Land Value Tax on their land holdings they would also use these assets efficiently. I have chaired a planning...
A TAX ON ALL YOUR HOUSES Homeowners have made big gains from the housing shortage, and they should pay to help the have-nots Polly Toynbee Friday November 5,...
