Almost all economists, financial analysts, journalists, pundits, bloggers, and armchair cynics will scoff at this prediction. But the cycle exists because people don ...

Unlike a recurrent land value tax, valorization is triggered by a specific project rather than assessed annually on all land, and — in Bogotá's version — it is apportioned across affected properties ...

Mass appraisal is the practice of valuing many properties simultaneously, on a common valuation date, using standardized statistical methods rather than individual expert appraisals. Computer-assisted ...

In obscure years before the Great War, two paradigms collided. Socialism versus the Single Tax set the trajectory of the twentieth century - enterprise, invention and productivity struck by depression ...

Someone just threw an objection at you. Find it here: what they say, what you say back in one or two sentences, the honest concession to make first where the criticism has real force, and the page to ...

Wiki · Concepts The Problems: what geoists claim is wrong with the world The diagnosis, in one place: the empirical claims geoism makes about the world — each stated as a falsifiable proposition, ...

A quote lands in a room where a citation doesn't. This is the advocate's supply of verbatim, verified lines — every quotation below is transcribed word-for-word and linked to the wiki page that holds ...

"Property-owning democracy" is a political ideal describing a society in which productive property — and, in its mid-20th-century British usage, homeownership specifically — is distributed widely ...

A proposed planned city in the American desert, announced by billionaire Marc Lore in 2021, whose land ownership model — 'Equitism' — is explicitly based on Henry George's proposal that a community ...

The Supreme Court ruled that rights may not be taxed. Therefore the right to engage in labor should not be taxed. A moral right is a correlative or flip side of a moral wrong. The right to have X ...

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Excessive traffic fines create distrust between the police and the people. What’s needed is tax reform that eliminates the financial incentive for taxation by citation. “Taxation by citation” is the ...