by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 21, 2021 | georgism
Land value taxation is impeded by the same national sentiment that has reacted so strongly to the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision. That decision has sparked an intense national debate over the private property versus land use regulation and, ultimately, over the ability...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 20, 2021 | georgism
from John Ikerd, July 2008 In 1879, Henry George, a journalist and philosopher, proposed to abolish all taxation save that upon land values in his classic book, Progress and Poverty. He suggested that people were not poor because of any lack of productivity of either...
by margaret | Sep 15, 2021 | georgism
Chapter I The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—Necessary Relation of These Laws The preceding examination has, I think, conclusively shown that the explanation currently given, in the name of political economy, of the problem we are attempting to solve, is...
