Nothing is more self-destructive than trying to defend the pretense that your proposal is not a new tax when your adversaries can effectively insist that it is...
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Joshua Vincent
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Feb 2, 2005 9:17 am
LVT proponents should learn to fight this notion of a local income to pay for government. We see from Philadelphia what happens when you ta income HERE, but...
Hi Dave, I had the opportunity of discussing Council Tax valuations with one of the major valuation firms in the UK. They put in a bid of £3.50 per unit for...
Ed, The quantity theory of money is fine - a difficulty arises from what is meant by money. Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far, away there was something...
Some (pretty random) thoughts: The ultimate aim (of all relevant groups?) would be to replace all existing taxes on goods, capital flows and income with a tax...
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Joshua Vincent
centerforthestudyofec...
Feb 2, 2005 9:19 am
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5112102-107865,00.html<http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5112102-107865,00.html> Good Analysis of LVT...
... I've certainly never heard of it and Bob Andelson's Land Value Taxation Around the World doesn't mention Sweden at all. I did a brief search through...
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Paul Metz
metz@...
Feb 2, 2005 3:05 pm
Paul Metz here: http://www.integerconsult.org This " Empty buildings are usually exempt. " shows serious neglect of free market mechanisms and should be...
Ed Dodson responding... Paul Metz wrote: This " Empty buildings are usually exempt. " shows serious neglect of free market mechanisms and should be addressed...
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Paul Metz
metz@...
Feb 3, 2005 10:19 am
Paul Metz here: A (new) tax is never popular. Fot the promotion of LVT we can learn from the ETR, the ecological tax reform as it is being gradually...
Kevin, Sorry for the delay getting back to you. After I marked you for a reply, I could not reach the server with my E-Mail. No-one knew why including the ...
Peter Gibb here. Paul Metz writes that "only the landowning elite will not support this reform [lvt]". But in the UK - which is not exceptional among Western ...
... Can I interject here. I'm not sure how necessary this is. A site's attractiveness for redevelopment will also be affected by what's around it. So if I...
I am reminded of a scene from the Woody Allen movie, "Love and Death." It is in front of an old inn that has a banner, "Village Idiots Convention -- Welcome,...
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Paul Metz
metz@...
Feb 4, 2005 1:51 pm
Paul Metz here: Peter Gibb is undoubtedly right with the 69%. But which share of the total surface of the UK does this represent ? I.e. how much land is not...
Paul, Don’t ascribe courage to our Californian legislators. They do what will likely be most profitable to them even if it costs us a lot. The most efficient...
Ed Dodson responding... Sean Brooks wrote: If the 100% location rent on such properties is low, and largely collected by the government, sale prices would be...
Peter Gibb here, Only 1243 landowners own three quarters of the privately-owned rural land in Scotland. This is a problem for many reasons (eg. development...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 4, 2005 1:59 pm
I'm working on them Kevin. Yesterday I was at John Prescott's "Sustainable Communities" Conference in Manchester. (Just one of 2,000 delegates and not invited...
So the Minister replied, "I don't know if Dave Wetzel is still here but we are looking at his proposals for a Land Tax!". Which brings me to a point that had...
Jock, Very good musings! You use whatever terminology will go down well with the voters – so long as your defined concepts are clear. Way back in the 60’s...
The only relevant statistic, in terms of support or opposition from home owners, is whether they would pay more or less under a land value tax than under the...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 5, 2005 10:48 am
Excellent point Eric. 1. The Land Café should be a stimulus to action. 2. We need to educate/enthuse decision-makers with the desire to introduce LVT. 3. We...
... The depositors get the interest income, after paying overhead and dividends to shareholders. ... Loans will not necessarily reduce, but be shifted to...
Ed Dodson with a few additional comments... ... Fred Foldvary: The depositors get the interest income, after paying overhead and dividends to shareholders. Ed...
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Terence Bendixson
t.bendixson@...
Feb 8, 2005 9:45 am
Dan My thinking is in accord with yours. But if, as you say, most of the tax burden is going to end up in CBDs, to what extent will LVT therefore be an ...
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Terence Bendixson
t.bendixson@...
Feb 8, 2005 9:45 am
Peter To what extent was Margaret Thatcher's right to buy Council houses successful in spreading home ownership to the previously landless? Is there any moral...
... LVT will not discourage development of central business districts, because it is not a tax on development, but on the value of land being held. It is most...
David, While banks don't mind foreclosing on a few mortgages, they are not very keen on foreclosing on 10,000 mortgages, or a 100,000 mortgages. Accommodations...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Feb 9, 2005 9:23 am
Cheers Abdul Nasser, Apols - I'm at another meeting. I do hope you will raise the issue of collecting the rental vale of the oilfields with him Dave Dave...
