LVT News Digest - 1 January 2008 Land tax call to speed up home building Scotsman - United Kingdom THE Scottish Government should introduce incentives to...
The term 'capitalism' does not describe any system of socio-political arrangements and institutions. I would argue that we never very significantly left the...
Roy, You say: in the relevant economic sense, capitalism means private ownership of the means of production (land and capital). I appreciate you exclude one...
Jock, Then LVT stands for Location Value Tax and you support and promote separate ecological taxation ? I would very much agree and advocate the ecological ...
Yes, no, maybe! I think I would need to look at each type of "land" before saying for sure. For example, if the energy required to get it out and used were...
Although eco-taxes can be justified from the same principles that justify land value tax, eco-taxes are not land value taxes, and the economic responses are...
Subject: [LandCafe] Re: Money-Issuing Privilege Quoting Roy Langston on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:45:33 -0500 (EST): ___Roy___ at some times in Chinese history,...
Well I'd say that Capitalism doesn't WELL describe the system that we have today. We have *formal* private ownership/control of labor output and capital, but...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Jan 2, 2008 8:08 am
Paul writes: "Then LVT stands for Location Value Tax" Or Location Benefit Levy Best Wishes, Dave Dave Wetzel Vice-Chair TfL Tel: 020 7126 4200 ... From:...
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David Reed
dbcreed@...
Jan 2, 2008 8:13 am
Mails are still being posted on the lines that Socialists are bent on confiscating the product of private effort and initiative. Quite apart from the...
Hi Scott, Just two pieces of memory: 1. Henry George visited Johnstown in 1893 when the steel rail manufacturing company, set up by Tom Johnson, was in...
... the oil is depleted.< ... What is the relevant community for oil? Those in the neighborhood, the country, the world? Are those who will be born in the...
... possible? Yes, the firms should seek to maximize profits, and only that portion of profit that is land rent should be taxed. If the economic rent portio of...
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Joshua Vincent
centerforthestudyofec...
Jan 2, 2008 6:20 pm
Dave - As a long-time Georgist trying to get LVT in place wherever possible, I accept assistance from all walks of the political spectrum. The art of politics...
JOSH, It is not that discrimination of political allies could be an obstacle in enlargement of our camp--but the pursuing of ''academic debates'' however they...
... Labor is not property, and cannot be owned as it exists only in the moment it is expended. Owning human beings allows one to extract their labor without...
... They were typically replicas of bronze token fiat money, and the problem with that was that private interests obtained something for nothing by fradulently...
... Socialism is collective ownership of the means of production (land and capital goods). There is ultimately no way to prevent private ownership of...
Roy, Here we seem to agree when you say: "I think I have been clear that we need to go beyond the fallacious dogmas of capitalism and socialism. " Paul Metz...
Joshua, I would like to ask you how you would go about bringing a sincere dedication to the land question and solving it, into ideological camps that have no...
... Or, it is a completely different strategy. We are not as preoccupied with achieving political power, but then, we do not let the quest for political power...
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bruno moser
bruno.moser@...
Jan 3, 2008 5:48 pm
I had to read the below article twice until I realized the pretty smart move to call for a moratorium of foreclosures. E-Z to sell, adds to the havoc, and the...
... Or, it is a completely different strategy. We are not as preoccupied with achieving political power, but then, we do not let the quest for political power...
... I'm not troubled by people who think of themselves as socialists of any stripe wanting to support land value tax. I am only troubled by people insisting...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Jan 4, 2008 7:55 am
Cheers Godfrey, I shall read a copy from the library. I'll also post to you (and anyone else requesting it) a Powerpoint on CD re the Bible and land sent to me...
... The sovereign nation. ... Their interests should be taken into account, but they do not have rights until they are born. ... It has the right, as no one...
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bruno moser
bruno.moser@...
Jan 4, 2008 11:06 am
Dear Mase I have never thanked you (enough) for your brilliant response ("chasing a moving target" when looking at rent in a perfectly administered GDP world) ...
Bruno, I appreciate your promotion of "Liberty". But keep putting it in the perspective of the European Revolution: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Liberty or...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Jan 4, 2008 1:36 pm
For our UK Labour Land Campaign Manifesto see: http://www.labourland.org/manifesto/intro.php We would welcome your comments. Dave Dave Wetzel, Vice-Chair, TfL ...
