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Why a ‘legally complicated’ tax change could benefit Detroiters
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is backing an effort to reform the city’s property tax structure to reduce the burden on homeowners but warns a lot of hurdles stand in the way of any quick change. https://www.bridgedetroit.com/why-a-legally-complicated-tax-change-could...
Metro Transit office explores possibilities of land value tax districts
By Rich Nymoen Supporting economic development. Advancing equity. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Maximizing community investments. Increasing infill and lessening sprawl. These are some of the potential benefits of land value tax (LVT) districts, according to Michael Krantz, acting program manager of Metro Transit’s office for...
How To Harness Cities’ Hidden Public Wealth
Making urban land a community asset could make cities more livable and equitable. BY MATT PREWITT AND JOEL ROGERS, AUGUST 2, 2022 https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-harness-cities-hidden-public-wealth/ Matt Prewitt is President of RadicalxChange Foundation. He is a lawyer, writer and technologist focused on new institutions for power...
The Guardian view on taxes: high time landowners paid their fair share
Even if you live hundreds of miles from Paddington or Stratford, you may know that London has just opened a vast and shiny new rail line. Once the 100km track is all joined up, a banker flying into Heathrow will be able to take one train directly into Canary Wharf, while a resident of Southall will be able to visit relatives in Seven...
The Evolutionary Blueprint
Guest Essay by Fred Harrison https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-evolutionary-blueprint?utm... We have reached an inflection point in our globalised world. Existing social narratives are not fit for purpose, in that they are incapable of deploying policies that address the existential crises in the realms of economics,...
INEQUALITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
The two greatest challenges facing the world in 2021—climate change and growing inequality—could both be addressed by the application of a fundamental remedy: Henry George’s misnamed, misunderstood, and much-maligned single tax. Taxes are burdens, charges levied on activities and commerce that very often discourage the very kinds of...
“The Perfect Tax”: Land Value Taxation and the Housing Crisis
AKHIL SAXENA | DECEMBER 3, 2021 In many major American cities, housing affordability has become a pressing issue. In cities like New York and San Francisco, rents have continued to rise over the past decade, leading to increased homelessness and housing insecurity. https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2021/12/the-perfect-tax-land-value-taxa...
Thomas Paine's Bones
Jeff Smith has written a remarkable monologue, with Thomas Paine telling his life story and the story of his times (the times that tried men's souls). I have converted this into a video and did my best to play the role of Paine as he might have spoken. So, take a listen, provide any comments and forward the link onto others. https://www....
New Brunswick shifts taxes off incomes onto carbon
New Brunswick has lowered the taxes on the working poor. It reduced the tax rate on the lowest tax bracket in favour of a carbon tax. Last week, New Brunswick announced that it would trim personal income taxes, returning some of its carbon revenue to taxpayers. Maria Lily Shaw, an economist at the Montreal Economic Institute, said New...
PRICING CARBON IS A MAGIC JOB MACHINE
by Frank de Jong “No army can stop an idea whose time has come” — Victor Hugo https://schalkenbach.org/pricing-carbon-is-a-magic-job-machine/ Hugo was referring to the French Revolution, but his quote also nails the unstoppable logic of carbon pricing. Recently, the Supreme Court of Canada wrote, “Climate change is a real and existential...
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VIRTUAL BOOK RELEASE Protection or Free Trade (Vol. IV) 7 p.m., Thursday, June 3, 2021
https://schalkenbach.org/book-release/?fbclid=IwAR35oRPtsoSOztn-l0MhIyK4... Join the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation for a virtual book launch celebrating the release of The Annotated Works of Henry... >> Read More
Council of Georgists Orgs 2019 conf Pittsburgh
Please plan to join the Council of Georgist Organizations for their 2019 Annual Conference, The Birth and Re-Birth of Labor. The conference will begin with an opening reception on the Evening of July... >> Read More
Vancouver Book Launch
RETHINKING THE ECONOMY LECTURE SERIES Friday, December 1st, 4-7pm Simon Fraser University Segal Centre Room 1430 - Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver) www.schalkenbach.org HENRY... >> Read More
Science for Peace Lecture
Economics of the Global Commons: Presented by Frank de Jong, President of Earthsharing Canada Thursday Feb 27, 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wdfCBnC_eU&list=PL3026A98CDDF39A36&index... >> Read More

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