From @joannechocolat

Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips (1866-1948) was an American game designer, #inventor, feminist, and writer. She invented The Landlord's Game, the direct precursor to #Monopoly, although she was never credited for this during her lifetime.

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Personal note: she said “the object of the game is not only to afford amusement to the players, but to illustrate to them how under the present or prevailing system of land tenure, the landlord has an advantage over other enterprises and also how the single tax would discourage land speculation.”

She was a proponent of #Georgism, a single tax movement widely popularized by charismatic politician Henry George through his first book, Progress and Poverty - an economic ideology that government should be funded by a tax on land rent (wealthy landlords) & not by taxes on labour.

He might have been on to something! 🧐 Can we have this now? Please? 🙏

#CelebratingWomen #BoardGames #Henry_George #Landlords #Taxes #Elizabeth_J._Magie_Phillips

There has long been a mistaken assumption in #Georgism circles that #landlords cannot pass on the cost of higher #LandValueTax onto #tenants, but that has never been true.

Landlords do not pay #LVT unless they have no tenants. The land user is the one that pays, not the land owner. The landlord merely acts as intermediary.

#Taxes are always and only ever paid by the only entity who cannot shift them—the end user.

We have not yet begun to discover how high land rents can rise. …

First post here: LVT is the most efficient way to tax

https://lemmy.ml/post/44604210

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBRPj6ew-uU

Broke: Wealth Tax.

Billionaires can try to flee to avoid, hide assets, etc. difficult to collect if stocks as value can significantly fluctuate on sale.

Woke: Land Value Tax

Can’t move the land. Billionaires flee to space and we no longer have to deal with them.

#georgism #lvt

Will pay fake internet points for georgist bangers o_o'

https://sh.itjust.works/post/53400940

Why do I keep saying that landowners are the ones that should pay higher taxes?

It's because it doesn't make sense to me that land ownership should be respected for "not paying into the system".

Like, if you want to play this silly game that little boys play of territorialism in elementary school playgrounds, where they draw imaginary boundaries, then by all means do so.

But for people who didn't consent to it, you gotta have a good reason why the respect for imaginary boundaries should be enforced.

To make it really easy: don't tax improvements; just land ownership.

#CanPoli #CanadaPoli #CanadianPoli #CanPolitics #CanadaPolitics #CanadianPolitics #Georgism #LandValueTax #LVT #Taxation

The Reddit comments regarding the following post are calling out how it is absolutely fair that BC assessment has reclassified Big Bang Cider's land use as "light industrial", but I don't think land use should be taxed more.

Just land occupation should be taxed, and nothing else.

(Of course, I'm probably the "anti-tax (except land)" equivalent of marxists: I'm probably missing nuance.)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/big-bang-cider-nanaimo-tax-hike-property-reclassification-9.7037518

#Georgism #LVT #CanPoli #CanadaPoli #CanadianPolitics #CanadianPoli #Taxation #LandValueTax

One day I will learn how to use a real image editor.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/53160268