The Republican Party as it was once constituted by certain principles and beliefs has ceased to exist. From the time of its founding by Lincoln in 1854, it had always stood for certain principles and beliefs, even when these changed. The Republican Party was initially… Read More »Restoration of a Two-Party System
It is always a fraught exercise to try to anticipate the overall impact of an event before that event has even concluded, and so it is with COVID 19. However, this has not stopped plenty of people from trying. A growing chorus seems to be… Read More »A Land Value Tax Can Decrease Residential Crowding, Alleviate Epidemic Disease
There are three fundamental human rights: 1) the right to do anything that does not coercively harm others; 2) the right to be free from coercive harm; 3) the right to an equal share of the benefits of natural resources. Since medical care is not… Read More »Medical Care for All
Some say racism was invented to try to justify displacing one group of people – Native Americans – from the land and enslaving another group of people to work it. Racism may be more complicated than that, but it has been closely connected to land… Read More »Racism and the Land
I was talking with my brother about his experiences as a small business owner during the current COVID crisis. Jay and his wife, Christina, run a gym in Long Island City, a neighborhood in Queens, New York. During the mandated shutdown, the fitness industry has… Read More »UBI/PPP Response Op Ed
A study documents the huge amount of space taken up by parking, and the astronomical costs it represents, in five U.S. cities. CityLab Richard Florida Parking eats up an incredible amount of space and costs America’s cities an extraordinary amount of money. That’s the main… Read More »Parking Has Eaten American Cities
Kelly Doran, a prominent Minneapolis housing developer, argued in a recent op/ed that with the current economic shutdown, the city’s “inclusionary housing” regulations that require market rate developments to include a percentage of affordable units should be eliminated. He says that such requirements, along with the difficulty… Read More »Does economic shutdown allow a reset on policies to make housing affordable?
The current attitudes toward government and its accompanying fiscal malaise can be explained in good part by the groundswell of resentment people feel about paying taxes. The dilemma has its roots, I believe, in the economic paradigm dominating public thought and discourse for the past… Read More »What is Rent?
Sophia Ankel and Jack Derwin, Business Insider Australia image: Flickr/Robert Couse-Baker If taxes were successful at constraining the consumption of meat, there would be a large reduction in carbon emissions. A new report by Fitch Solutions reveals that a “sin tax” currently put on products… Read More »Governments around the world are considering taxing red meat like tobacco in an effort to curb climate change
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