LVT News Digest - 1 January 2008 Land tax call to speed up home building Scotsman - United Kingdom THE Scottish Government should introduce incentives to...
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Edward Dodson
ejdodson
Jan 1, 2008 9:49 pm
The term 'capitalism' does not describe any system of socio-political arrangements and institutions. I would argue that we never very significantly left the...
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Paul Metz
mtz_pl
Jan 1, 2008 9:55 pm
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...
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Paul Metz
mtz_pl
Jan 1, 2008 10:02 pm
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 ...
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Jock Coats
jockox3
Jan 1, 2008 10:30 pm
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...
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Dan Sullivan
dansullivan0
Jan 1, 2008 10:49 pm
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...
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Scott Bergeson
shbergeson
Jan 2, 2008 2:32 am
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,...
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Peter Bj€ ¦ørn Perls€...
peterperlsoe
Jan 2, 2008 6:45 am
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...
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Ronald
cobden1860
Jan 2, 2008 12:01 pm
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...
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Fred Foldvary
ffoldvary
Jan 2, 2008 3:03 pm
... 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...
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Fred Foldvary
ffoldvary
Jan 2, 2008 4:23 pm
... 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...
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Julien Gross
juliengross1
Jan 3, 2008 1:20 am
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...
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Roy Langston
roy_langston1
Jan 3, 2008 2:32 am
... 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...
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Roy Langston
roy_langston1
Jan 3, 2008 2:46 am
... They were typically replicas of bronze token fiat money, and the problem with that was that private interests obtained something for nothing by fradulently...
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Roy Langston
roy_langston1
Jan 3, 2008 3:03 am
... Socialism is collective ownership of the means of production (land and capital goods). There is ultimately no way to prevent private ownership of...
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Paul Metz
mtz_pl
Jan 3, 2008 2:30 pm
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...
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Peter Bj€ ¦ørn Perls€...
peterperlsoe
Jan 3, 2008 4:24 pm
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...
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Dan Sullivan
dansullivan0
Jan 3, 2008 5:32 pm
... 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...
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Dan Sullivan
dansullivan0
Jan 3, 2008 6:03 pm
... 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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Dan Sullivan
dansullivan0
Jan 4, 2008 2:21 am
... 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...
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Roy Langston
roy_langston1
Jan 4, 2008 9:35 am
... 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) ...
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Paul Metz
mtz_pl
Jan 4, 2008 11:14 am
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 ...
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Fred Foldvary
ffoldvary
Jan 4, 2008 2:59 pm
... If there is chaos, there is violence, and there is no liberty, so how does liberty create its opposite? Fred Foldvary...
