By Nicolaus Tideman “The Henry George Theorem” is the name that economists have given to the postulate that, under certain circumstances, a public service will increase land rent[1] enough that, if the increase in land rent is collected as public revenue, this revenue will sufficient… Read More »The Henry George Theorem
UPDATE: This post prompted an interview on the Real News Network. Watch the interview here. By: Rich Nymoen My kids recently started back to their high school, as did millions of other kids across the country. I’m fortunate that they attend public school in a… Read More »Segregation
Common Property in Land. “We must make land common property,” Henry George declared. That loaded statement has often been taken out of context. It frequently led to George being lumped in with “the socialists” (who, for their part, strongly disagreed with George; Karl Marx referred to… Read More »Henry George’s Remedy
Land Value Taxation (also known as split-rate real property taxation, and two-tiered real property taxation) is a type of real property taxation. Whereas the typical real property tax taxes both land and the improvements on the land at the same rate, LVT taxes land at a higher rate… Read More »What is Land Value Taxation?
Few people illustrate the reach and influence of online discussion better than Matthew Rognlie. In April 2014, the 26-year-old MIT student had just read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and among the numerous reviews of the book, he felt that a nagging problem was not… Read More »The Evidence Is In: Land Is The Cause of Inequality
A land value tax is a tax that is assessed on the value of a piece of land, rather than the value of the buildings that sit on it. Under a land tax, you are effectively taxed on the value of your location, which is… Read More »What is a land value tax?
