Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010
One of the few conferences I actually want to go to this year
THE INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR LAND VALUE TAXATION: Why is so much wealth in the hands of so few?
Mark W and LVT supporters - I shall be going to the Monday and Friday sessions, and hopefully a few more if I can find the time. I will, hopefully, be bringing along a BBC camera man who I am trying to make a documentary on taxation and my own specialism.
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1. neo-serf said...
This conference will be brilliant - a panel of speakers who genuinely know what they are talking about.
Can't wait.
2. stillthinking said...
Good for you.
3. Essexman said...
I'm unconvinced this will make things better and not worse.
Any 'Value' tax not determined by market prices must have a value assessed and assigned by a government official.
Government officials are quite good at measuring - but not so good at 'valuing' - this is something which markets do better.
A 'Land size' tax or a 'land use tax' or a 'property cost tax' (such as the hated 'Stamp Tax') is easy to administer and collect.
But any tax that requires officials to interfere with or ignore "the market" usually causes more problems than it is worth.
4. mark wadsworth said...
Sounds like fun.
5. Marbelous0 said...
Don't forget your hammer and sickle!
6. Freemanphil said...
Taxation, always and everywhere, distorts the free market. We need less, not more taxation.
7. Charlie Brooker said...
I like this quote from Henry George:
“He inspired the philosophy and economic ideology known as Georgism, which is that everyone owns what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity.”
A simple truth that somehow everyone seems to have forgotten.
8. charlie brooker said...
About Henry George:
“He inspired the philosophy and economic ideology known as Georgism, which is that everyone owns what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity.”
Utterly true and shows up the obnoxious the banking/rentier pact for what it is.
9. Jim Green said...
LVT - great! Money reform - also an essential part of the solution. This provides part of the answer to the question posed in the headline:
http://www.bendyson.com/Easy-Solution-To-The-Financial-Crisis.pdf
10. shipbuilder said...
Freemanphil, put your libertarian dogma to the side, read the Henry George quote and think about it.
11. Carol Wilcox said...
If you believe what George said "everyone owns what they create" (everyone is entitled to the fruits of their own labour) have you considered that only workers create? The owners of capital just provide the finance for the capital goods which are required for production - they don't create anything.