If only someone could have foreseen 140 yrs ago, looking at our great coastal cities like SF and NYC, this correlation between high land prices caused by economic progress and burgeoning of #poverty.
He could have written a book called #ProgressAndPoverty. His name could have been #HenryGeorge.
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We, as a society, need to stop asking the question, βWhy are wages so low?β and start asking the question, βWhy is the cost of living so high?β
Itβs the Rent, Stupid. The Economic Rent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
#economics #monopoly #PoliticalEconomy #LVT #LandValueTaxSolvesThis
@ktdoggett While this is true, the root of the problem is not really that the rich dodge taxes, it's that we the people fundamentally misunderstand the nature of taxation, in the first place, so we permit a system of taxation that allows the rich to dodge taxes with impunity.
Henry George showed us all the away in 1879. We ignored him.
#LandValueTaxSolvesThis #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #TaxLandNotMan #ItsTheRentStupid #Monopoly #LVT #UBI
The #housing shortage will be solved when there is so much supply of vacant housing that #landlords are forced to compete for tenants.
Remember the old adage, "The customer is always right?" Try to remember that the tenant is the customer, not the landlord.
How do we get from here to the promised land? Tax land values instead of building values and incomes.
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The less you understand about #Philosophy, #Politics, #Law, and #Economics, the more easily you are manipulated by people with power.
#Inflation is caused by private #ownership of the scarce common wealth resources for which people compete to obtain sustenance. There is no other cause of inflation. It's really that simple.
Earth belongs by right and in common to all the living. #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #Georgism #HenryGeorge #Geolibertarianism #LandValueTaxSolvesThis #LVT #UBI
LRT: And yet, every time we #Georgists point out that land is still and will always be the basis of all economies, we get ridiculed. Maybe the rich know something our detractors donβt.
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What in the actual fuck do you think the tax system even *is*, if it is not one and the same as the political system??!!
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Last RT: Good article to read next time an affluent white liberal tells you they only support public #housing, not evil developers or market-driven solutions to the #housingcrisis. #LandValueTaxSolvesThis. #LVT #YIMBY #BuildMoreHousing #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #π°
There is *no such thing* as "left-NIMBY". #NIMBYism is the very definition of "right wing"βdefense of the landed class. Read your political history.
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