This is a series which ran in The Scotsman this week. The final article provides an opportunity to comment .... 1 Forestry Commission Scotland 1,640,000 2 ...
Well, I declare an interest as my (American) cousins discovered that the Coatses are a sept of Clan Farquharson. Not that that has done this grandson of a...
In San Francisco, the other day, "A well-dressed boy, on his way to Sunday-school, was arrested and thrown into the city prison for stoning Chinamen." What a...
I have long had impressions of this story for, as most Georgists who attend the American conventions know, I have long been a Twain scholar. However, before I...
I saw it for the first time last week in a collection at my in-laws (I'm not a Twain scholar) and remembered that Twain's views of Chinese immigrants had been...
... But how is this posting pertinent to the purposes of this list? It seems to me that the earlier discussion of Twain's views were tangential to an attack on...
... to ... others) ... that they ... tangent ... of ... but ... that ... I thought it was interesting, well-written, and certainly relates to a discussion that...
... Thanks for the laugh, Walter. I hadn't seen this before. Many people view Twain as some kind of apolitical hayseed humorist. I'm always eager to read...
Look gents, If one of you has posted a story in this holiday season, even if not exactly on track, I have no problem. But this list is not the place to carp....
(this video is narrated in Chinese, unfortunately, but is an indication (perhaps) that there is interest on the part of some Chinese in the ideals espoused by...
A good bit of George's work in P & P is devoted to the disutility he argues that must result from unfettered speculation in natural resources (since it moves...
Dan, Never called myself a libertarian, even though I believe in limited Government, little or no taxation, and an economy running under the free market. I...
Walter, economic control is always better than political control. Harry ******************************* Harry Pollard Henry George School of Los Angeles Box...
... Speculation is not the major problem LVT would address. The unrequited transfer of wealth -- about 20% of GDP -- from the productive to idle landowners ...
... Thanks. There are other ways to dampen speculation than the Japanese method, though. You could, e.g., take the annual real estate gain in value whether...
Subject: Re: [LandCafe] Re:What Portion of 'Geo-Benefits' Would Result from Elimination of Spe Quoting Walter Horn on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:41:10 -0000: ___Roy...
... That's closer in effect to LVT, but the adjustment for additional investment looks pretty game-able. ... Complexer and complexer... The need to add such...
Thanks, Roy. That's very helpful. ... Could be. The only thing it really has going for it is that it doesn't seem to require the separate assessment of land...
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Jan 8, 2009 9:31 am
I wonder whether there is anymore mileage in using the term "marginal land".There seems to be a confusing element of fertility, the chemical and...
... term "marginal land".There seems to be a confusing element of fertility, the chemical and micro-biological constituents of the soil that LVT, being...
... Harry Pollard has concluded it must be treated very differently. ... I've mentioned before that there is a problem with the idea of measuring rent by that...
... I consider these issues solved: 1. No compensation for land but the same personal exemption everyone else gets. Compensation for improvements only when a...
... Von Thunen's model addresses this. Different land uses have different production output curves. Many land uses have zero output well in from the...
There's "solved" and there's "solved." I was referring to the political obstacles, which are enormous. W ... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger for the Web...
... The internal political obstacle must be solved first. That is, we must set aside utopian politics and tune in to what politicians and their constituents...
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Jan 11, 2009 7:52 pm
In a sense the political obstacles are fewer than they have been.Land taxers cannot be accused of bringing down property/ land values because they are already...
... housing bubbles would be disastrous. Oh, I wouldn't bank on that. I'd expect most people to be clamoring for their lost equity back ASAP. ... customers is...
Thanks for posting this. It's interesting data. Couple of things though. I calculated the r-square for the two values you're connecting as only about .32....
... I don't know what data you calculated from. Clearly there are other variables, but property tax clearly plays a role as well. I would expect the r^2...
