To see - letter to Oxford Times on (SEERA) housing numbers, land tax and community land trusts...:-) ... -- J1e Morrell Hall, OXFORD, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom ...
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Wetzel Dave
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Dec 6, 2004 6:29 pm
... From: Rodney Shakespeare [mailto:Rodney.Shakespeare1@...] Sent: 02 December 2004 22:06 To: Carol Wilcox; Peter Challen Cc: Wetzel Dave; Ronald...
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Wetzel Dave
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Dec 6, 2004 6:29 pm
Start a new party? Don't go there Jock! My Dad was active in the Commonwealth Land Party in the 1920s and 1930s. Much energy was spent by Graham Peace its...
HOW LAND AFFECTS THE AVERAGE PERSON Contents: INTRODUCTION PROBLEMS THE UK HAS A LAND SURPLUS QUESTIONS PLANNING SOLUTIONS 1. Nationalise Land 2....
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Wetzel Dave
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Dec 6, 2004 6:32 pm
From: Globalnet mail uk [mailto:ros@...] Sent: 06 December 2004 17:10 Ed, I dont know how you can be so wrong. Land redistribution does work. It...
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Wetzel Dave
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Dec 8, 2004 10:42 am
George Many thanks for these valuable comments. I believe there are two types of "property": 1. What Mother Nature provides. 2. What our own labour creates. eg...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Dec 8, 2004 3:49 pm
... From: bruno [mailto:Oona@...] Sent: 07 December 2004 17:29 To: Nic Tideman Cc: Andre Burgstaller; Joshua Vincent; Richard Biddle; Wetzel Dave ...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Dec 8, 2004 3:49 pm
Kevin Many thanks for your final para giving the breakdown of Government income and thanks also to Charles. I fully support the idea of a basic income paid...
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Wetzel Dave
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Dec 9, 2004 10:51 am
We all work for our "tax free" pay. i.e. What we receive after income taxes are deducted. If you impose an income tax on those earning above the average salary...
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Ed Dodson here:
Dec 9, 2004 10:55 am
Ed Dodson here: Nature has a zero cost of production in terms of labor expended and/or capital goods utilized. "Rent" is the measure of the difference between...
... Mark: Hi Radu, But if the land belongs to society then society can choose to keep any of it out of individual use - this does have a cost, but it is borne...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Dec 9, 2004 1:22 pm
Hi Steve, I now have a little time this morning to respond to your e-mail. Sorry for the delay. 1. You say: ".......quite a bit of unused land/property around...
Hi Paul, Yes, some good comments. So does this mean that community use (common) land should incur a charge against that local community? I suspect that this...
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Paul Metz
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Dec 9, 2004 4:46 pm
Mark Your point is correct, but I add an observation on the 'we all benefit of Land' argument. The fundamental point is that we do and cannot and will not...
It turns out that the piece which ran in the Guardian on 11/22, under the title "Paying What We Owe," (which Paul Metz posted here) was an excerpt from a...
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Paul Metz
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Dec 10, 2004 4:20 pm
Mark, Yes, at an earlier visit to this Café I have argued with other clients that ALL land and other natural resources - 'Land' - could and should be valued ...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Dec 10, 2004 4:20 pm
... From: Wetzel Dave Sent: 09 December 2004 13:44 To: 'Chapter 7'; Jock Coats; diggers350@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [diggers350] Re: Coats, Cahill and LVT ...
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Tony Vickers [mailto:...
tonyvickers@...
Dec 10, 2004 5:43 pm
... From: Tony Vickers [mailto:tonyvickers@...] Sent: 10 December 2004 14:05 A GIS colleague passed this on. Renting is a better solution than...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Dec 10, 2004 5:45 pm
... From: bruno [mailto:Oona@...] Sent: 10 December 2004 01:32 To: Wetzel Dave Subject: RE: In Vietnam In Vietnam they give out leases: 49 and 99 years....
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Dec 10, 2004 5:45 pm
Cheers Simon I do not take just an urban perspective. I used to live in Mevagissey in Cornwall - pretty rural. I was active in the local Labour Party, a member...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Dec 10, 2004 6:52 pm
Marcus I welcome your e-mail. We are proposing a TIF (Tax Incremantal Financing) for CrossRail. However: Do not confuse a tram operating once every say ten...
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Paul Metz
metz@...
Dec 11, 2004 9:11 am
Bruno, Is the annual lease tariff indexed or fixed for many or even 49 years ? The latter is the case in old landlease arrangements in Netherlands and causes...
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Terence Bendixson
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Dec 11, 2004 9:11 am
Dave I am not sure I am convinced that LVT will bring abandoned land and semi-derelict council estates in, say, East Manchester back into use. No one want to...
The problem with LVT for rural areas is on the spending side, not the taxing side, and applies to virtually any tax. That is, the more urban a community is,...
THE SOUTH AFRICAN STAR - Johannesburg,South Africa http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=228&fArticleId=2340723 December 10, 2004 Letter: Lateral...
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Paul Metz
metz@...
Dec 11, 2004 11:06 pm
Dan, I fully agree and suppose as an explanation that the urban life makes more use of the global commons - now for free, without paying - and thus generates...
It seems like they do not reassess the value of the lease. Thus many people become rich over night (though the majority misses out). I recently read that the...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Dec 12, 2004 4:58 pm
Terence Harrisburg in USA had this same problem - but it was reversed when they introduced a very small LVT. With a higher rate of LVT, investors will not be...
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Albert Hartheimer [ma...
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Dec 12, 2004 4:58 pm
Al Hartheimer here: In response to Radu's thoughts in response to Ed Dodson's. Radu: In actual practice, in the cities in Pennsylvania and Australia and New ...
