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Presidents Letter 2011

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Congressional earmarks sometimes used to fund projects near lawmakers’ properties

By David S. Fallis, Scott Higham and Kimberly Kindy, Published: February 6

A U.S. senator from Alabama directed more than $100 million in federal earmarks to renovate downtown Tuscaloosa near his own commercial office building.

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IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies) backs land value tax

Thursday 2 February 2012 The idea is to cut income and business taxes while introducing a land value tax to end our obsession with property and to encourage paid work. There is a mania for investing in unproductive property as a way to boost living standards.
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Short debate: A Land Value Tax for Wales?

‘Land value tax’ would be fairer, says Mark Drakeford AM by David Williamson, Wales Online Feb 3 2012

Welsh Labour AM Mark Drakeford has given his backing to a “land value tax”.

The Cardiff West AM’s championing of the tax comes as the Silk Commission investigates giving the Assembly new fiscal powers.

In an article for the Institute of Welsh Affairs, Mr Drakeford argues land should “should belong to the people” and this would be a progressive tax

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The Renegade Ecologist: Views from a Georgist Ecologist

Land Value Tax, which is in my opinion the Holy Grail of legislative changes to protect wildlife, is the simplest expression of the Economic theories of Henry George. This theory goes that if we abolish all harmful taxes on our hard work and trade and instead charge a rent for the use of natural resources such as Land we will not waste them or allow private interests to exploit the rest of humanities access to them.
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The Killing Fields Screenings

The documentary film written and presented by Fred Harrison - The Killing Fields, which exposes how the tax system is responsible for destroying habitats and species - is to receive two high-profile screenings:

- On 9th February at Oxford University UK. There will be a discussion regarding reforms to taxation to eliminate poverty, environmental damage and social injustice.

- On May 6th:screened at the Brighton Festival UK. A panel discussion involving participants in the film - conservationist Peter Smith, landowner/farmer Dr Duncan Pickard, and eco-warrior lawyer Polly Higgins - will be chaired by Sir Richard Jolly.

The video was directed by Carlo Nero. Hosting these events will be Academy Award winning actress Vanessa Redgrave, who is this year's Guest Director of the Brighton Festival. The DVD can be purchased from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.
China’s skyscraper craze ‘may herald economic crash’

Guardian UK Wednesday 11 January 2012 Tall-building boom may indicate impending disaster in China and India, claims report by Barclays Capital "Fred Harrison, a Georgist and research director of the Land Research Trust, wrote in his 1997 book The Chaos Makers that "by 2007 Britain and most of the other industrially advanced economies will be in the throes of frenzied activity in the land market … Land prices will be near their 18-year peak … on the verge of the collapse that will presage the global depression of 2010."
Exhibit illuminates Statue of Liberty poet Lazarus

Reuters U.S. Wednesday 11 January 2012 A New York exhibit sheds new light on the life of Emma Lazarus, whose sonnet on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty transformed the monument into a symbol of hope for millions of immigrants. "She honed her social conscience and was impressed by the social reformer Henry George as well as William Morris, a major reformer of the arts."
Forget 9-9-9. Here’s a Simple Plan: 1 October 16th 2011

Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard and the author of “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History.” Cambridge, Mass. In the Republican debate on Tuesday, the restaurant industry executive... FULL ARTICLE AT THE NEW YORK TIMES
NEW MOVIE How Land Value Tax would help Wildlife and ensure Its protection. The film is presented by Fred Harrison.

This interview shows the launch of The Killing Fields, an important new film that explores the relationship between wildlife, land, taxation and law. The film, presented by economist Fred Harrison, documents how the introduction of Land Value Tax would give greater value to wildlife and ensure its protection. The premiere event was hosted Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave and attended by a number of Hollywood stars and leaders of Nature Conservation Charities.
THE KILLING FIELDS
The untold story of how landowners are making a financial killing while species are being wiped out in the fields of Britain and Europe and the work of wildlife conservationists is being undermined in a desperate race to prevent the obliteration of ecosystems. Trailer from Carlo Nero on Vimeo.
THE KILLING FIELDS Trailer from Carlo Nero on Vimeo.
Time to resurrect an old idea: “Economic Rent”

Have you ever heard of the term “economic rent”? No? That’s probably because of the greatest political coup in the history of our republic.
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