A Brown economist on the land tax: "I totally agree." Then the hard part: getting people to see it. #landvaluetax #economics #georgism #markblyth #shorts
Georgism 🔰
by @brendanjones.eurosky.social
A Georgist feed. In chronological order, pulling in any posts from the last week mentioning georgism, georgist, severance tax, land value tax, pigouvian tax, harberger tax, henry george, mason gaffney, geoism, geolibertarian, lars doucet, or geosocial. Plus similar tags, including #LVT .
You didn't build the transit line, the parks, the schools or the hospitals near your property. The public did. A land value tax simply returns some of that value to the people who created it.
A compelling case for Land Value Tax:
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Land value tax polled better than the status quo in BC. Maybe because the status quo is working great for property owner windfalls, and not much else, while we overtax income. When land values rise because of public investment, the public should get some of that value back.
Charlie Burrell says that #inheritance comes with "responsibility". We're no legal experts, but...not sure it does. #InheritanceTax #wealthtax #LandValueTax