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by Fred Foldvary The most effective way to reduce climate change is with a “green tax shift” which replaces taxes on wages, goods, and enterprise with levies on pollution and land values. There are three basic ways to reduce polluting emissions: regulations, permit trading, and… Read More »Climate Change and the Green Tax Shift
Land Value Taxation (also known as split-rate real property taxation, and two-tiered real property taxation) is a type of real property taxation. Whereas the typical real property tax taxes both land and the improvements on the land at the same rate, LVT taxes land at a higher rate… Read More »What is Land Value Taxation?
Few people illustrate the reach and influence of online discussion better than Matthew Rognlie. In April 2014, the 26-year-old MIT student had just read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and among the numerous reviews of the book, he felt that a nagging problem was not… Read More »The Evidence Is In: Land Is The Cause of Inequality
A land value tax is a tax that is assessed on the value of a piece of land, rather than the value of the buildings that sit on it. Under a land tax, you are effectively taxed on the value of your location, which is… Read More »What is a land value tax?
Henry George (1839-1897) is best known today for Progress and Poverty (1879). Eloquent, timely and challenging, this book soon became and remains the all-time best-seller on economic theory and policy. In 1879, George electrified the world by identifying one underlying cause for two great economic plagues: chronic… Read More »Henry George 100 Years Later: The Great Reconciler
