Earthsharing Canada

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Earthsharing Canada is part of the international grassroots movement advocating revenue-neutral tax shifting off consumption and income taxes and onto site rental, resource rental, and pollution levies. Untaxing the productive economy creates wealth while taxing nature conserves the planet.

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A housing crisis of global proportions

Globe and Mail columnist calls for Land Value Taxation. Doug Saunders: "If we really wanted housing to be profitable and plentiful, we’d tax owners on the annual rise in value of their property – a Land Value Tax. This has two benefits: First, you’re taxing a non-productive source of wealth, whereas income and corporate taxes can stifle...

Real Estate 4 Ransom

Who is property speculation really good for? With global economies stressing as property values plunge and banks write down their books, this film gives an alternative to the push for austerity. http://realestate4ransom.com/ Real Estate 4 Ransom is a documentary about global property speculation and its impact on the economy. Real...

OECD to Northern Europe: Raise Your Property Taxes!

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development is calling on Germany to raise its property taxes dramatically and reduce taxes on labor. The group, whose membership is made up of 34 of the world's leading market economies, also made similar recommendations for Denmark, Norway, and the UK over the past month.

How can Italy's hidden wealth be freed up?

by Tom Gill They show that €9.5 trillion (£7.9tn) is tied up in household wealth. That's a vast resource that if tapped would solve the country's public finances overnight and provide plenty of resources for growth, jobs and high-quality public services for all. Equal to almost €400,000 (£330,000) a family on average, the figures show...

Untax Buildings, Uptax Land

On the invitation of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Frank de Jong visited Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg in November, speaking on the multiple benefits to urban design when municipal property taxes are shifted off buildings and onto land value alone. Interviews -- audio, text: http://www.fcpp.org/media.php/1882

Henry George -- populist before populism was invented

Henry George during his campaign for NYC mayor

I take issue with the final sentence in the below New York Times op-ed. Not only did Georgism account for greed, it was essentially designed as a system to dampen or ameliorate greed, which I would think means the desire (and collection) of more wealth than one deserves. Greed, in economics, is almost synonymous with rent-seeking....

The only solution to the Greek financial crisis

Perhaps the most constructive comment on the solution to the Greek debt crisis has come from Andrus Ansip, prime minister of Estonia. He is reported to have said, “If I may give my advice to Greece, it is that you have to cut public expenditure. You have to make structural reforms. And you have to create a really efficient taxation...

New Democratic Party Land Campaign

The aim of the NDP Land Campaign - http://ndplandcampaign.weebly.com/ - is to improve the understanding of and support for Land Value Taxation amongst members of the New Democratic Party; to encourage all New Democrats to promote and campaign for this policy as part of a more sustainable and just resource based economic system in which...

Frank de Jong interview on Economic Rent

A 30-minute interview where Earthsharing Canada's Frank de Jong argues that governments should finance programs like health care, education by collecting economic rent in lieu of taxing jobs, businesses and consumption. 30-minute interview

Herman Daly credits Henry George economics

For some time a small group of ecological economists has been suggesting that we switch the tax base from income (value added to natural resources by labor and capital), and on to natural resources themselves. Value added to resources is something we want more of, so don’t tax it (either at each stage of production as in Europe, or at...

Events

INTERNATIONAL GEORGIST CONFERENCE

Biannual IU in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 15-18 Chief organizer Hector Sandler has recruited the ASAP, an NGO with over 300 members who all are graduates of public economy a major institution to... >> Read More

North American Conference of the Council of Georgist Organizations

The 32nd North American Conference of the Council of Georgist Organizations July 30 - August 6, 2012, Next to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the Camp Hill Radisson Tentative Program Land value tax in... >> Read More

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