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.
#urbanism #LVT #LandValueTaxSolvesThis #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #LandValueTax #SingleTax #Georgism #housing #homelessness #USpol
@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
No, it's really just the one thing.
* It's the Rent, Stupid. *
Economic rent-seeking is what is causing this problem, and the only solution for it is Land Value Tax.
Housing cannot be both affordable and a good investment. A house is not an asset, it is a durable consumer good; it is the land underneath the house that is the true asset.
#LVT #Georgism #HousingCrisis #Economics #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #CostOfLiving
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/realtors-housing-crisis-northern-ontario-1.7440689
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.
#Georgism #HenryGeorge #ProgressAndPoverty #LVT #UBI #LandValueTax #LandValueTaxSolvesThis #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty
#TrickleDown #SupplySideEconomics doesn't work, because that's not how economies work.
In any #neofeudalism based society, such as dominates human civilization in the current era, wealth only *trickles up*.
That's why #LandValueTax is the only way to provide true #EconomicJustice; it's the only thing that creates the necessary feedback loop. You can't hide or move land. All #monopoly power will always be reflected in land values.
#WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #LVT
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/
Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries โ but they did worsen income inequality.
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 donโt.
#Georgism #Geolibertarianism #HenryGeorge #LandValueTax #LVT #LandValueTaxSolvesThis #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #ProgressAndPoverty #USpol #LandPolicy
LRT: Iโd like people to understand that the vast majority of #lightpollution is not caused by the need for humans to actually see what they are doing at night, but by the insistence of property owners to deter #theft, #vandalism, and #trespass of/on their #privateproperty.
This was patently obvious to me when I was #homeless.
Solve the #Property Problem, and you will solve 90% of the light pollution problem. As #HenryGeorge told us in 1879, the Remedy is this: #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty
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??!!
#LandValueTaxSolvesThis #LandValueTaxSolvesEverything #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #LVT #UBI #Georgism
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