Major respect to Harry for spending umpteen hours at Hyde Park Corner putting a case for Land Value Tax, an impressive ,even frightening ,level of commitment !...
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David Reed
dbcreed@...
Nov 1, 2009 9:08 am
Major respect to Harry for spending umpteen hours at Hyde Park Corner putting a case for Land Value Tax, an impressive ,even frightening ,level of commitment !...
... Broadcast something, but ... SITE REVENUE [good that you lead with the core but the phrase is opaque. Better use “land value” then define below] ... 1....
... An independent body would value the land using all sales and rental data and a computer model. BC Assessment seems to do this reasonably well. The...
... Just think of how a hotelier uses land to produce accommodation. It's a little subtler with homeowners who produce their own accommodation, but the basic...
Subject: Re: [LandCafe] Re: rent,utility,Homestead Exemption Quoting roy_langston1 on Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:35:10 -0000: ___David Reed___ In the UK the immediate...
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David Reed
dbcreed@...
Nov 2, 2009 11:29 am
If we were to got back to Harry Pollard's old-fashioned but useful example of the enterprising milliner: he was talking about the increased production that she...
How about granting a credit (as large as politically possible) to all building assessments, paid for by an increase in the property-tax rate (of course, we...
I have toyed with a "good citizens credit" for improvements eventually reaching 100%. Might be politically feasible. Harry ****************************** Henry...
... That is what I am talking about, too: the production of greater accommodation value by a homeowner in a higher-rent location. The fact that he consumes...
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David Reed
dbcreed@...
Nov 4, 2009 11:36 am
Many thanks to Roy Langston to going to considerable trouble to explain how homeowners are economically productive.However, if homeowners consume all they...
Quoting David Reed on Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:31:56 +0000: ___DR___ if homeowners consume all they produce (which explains why we can't see any production),then...
... Speak for yourself. Although you wouldn't want to intrude on your neighbors' privacy by peeping into their windows, I would suggest closely observing them...
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David Reed
dbcreed@...
Nov 5, 2009 7:49 pm
There's not much point in repeating the same points over and over again. Universal personal exemptions from LVT of whatever percentage of whatever measure...
Quoting David Reed on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:36:41 +0000: ___DR___ Universal personal exemptions from LVT of whatever percentage of whatever measure are compatible...
David, The old terms are as pertinent as they ever were. Labor still uses Capital to produce Wealth from the Land. What has changed is what nowadays passes for...
David, I've been careful over these several years to point out that I am mostly referring to Rents on Commercial land. I have on occasion mentioned Rents on...
FYI Don't believe in food stamps and similar welfare. Do believe in ending the conditions that lead to this situation. Harry **** Agence France Press November...
... Please explain how land values could be high -- i.e., why more than one person would be willing to pay a lot to obtain ownership of useful land -- if the...
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David Reed
dbcreed@...
Nov 7, 2009 9:31 am
Can well understand how a high LVT rate and universal exemptions would tend to depress land values.But a high percentage LVT rate and no exemptions would lower...
... Harry, that is ideological, or fundamentalist. Yes of course we should 'end the conditions', but we must also believe in welfare and the welfare state. The...
... I don't believe in welfare or the welfare state. Welfare is a program that violates the rights of some for the unearned benefit of others, and thus fosters...
... Assuming the latter was as politically feasible as the former. A high LVT that is implemented because it is accompanied by a flat, universal personal...
... tend to depress Land PRICES, not Land VALUES! An important distinction, and if WE can't keep it straight, how can we expect others to? David Reed wrote: ...
Quoting Wyn Achenbaum on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:03:53 -0500: ___Wyn___ .. tend to depress Land PRICES, not Land VALUES! An important distinction, and if WE can't...
Quoting roy_langston1 (Roy Langston) on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:56:02 -0000: ___Roy___ ... Please correct your spell checker's dictionary. My surname has an 's',...
... I look at it this way. Anyone deprived of land without compensation has been robbed of far more than what we give to poor people. Grousing about food...
... If there is no tax on persons, saying that an exemption applies to the person, rather than to the land the person holds, is nonsensical. The exemption must...
... You're right, I should have said that unlike a homestead exemption, the proposed exemption _ATTACHES_ to persons, not land. It _APPLIES_ to the tax on the...
... Sorry, I hate it when people get my name wrong, too. What, they can't hear the difference between "Roy" and "Ray"? ... Correct. Having their liberty...
