On MSNBC tonight the Tums commercial with the Grizzly Bear attacking a car seemed highly inappropriate. Someone should have pulled it after the Stamford event.
Recent Posts
- Those Who Sweat For It
- Stamford's private beaches ... very appealing ... and assessor cut one's valuation!
- How Should We Pay for I-95, I-84, I-91 and the Parkways? High Fuel Taxes, or Tolls?
- Someone should have pulled that Tums ad
- Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities
- City to purchase 50 foreclosed homes - Stamford News - The Stamford Times
- The New London Day endorses Land Value Taxation
- Fairway signs tentative deal for store in South End development
- The Merritt: Conserve it, or utilize it fully?
- Artificial Turf thought
Categories
- artificial turf issue
- assessment
- better cities
- canons of taxation
- commons
- cost of living
- cui bono?
- downtown
- economic development
- economic justice
- environment
- estate taxes
- financing education
- financing infrastructure
- FIRE sector
- golf
- groceries
- hole in the ground
- housing
- housing affordability
- incentive taxation
- land appreciates, buildings depreciate
- land share of real estate value
- land value taxation
- Merritt
- Merritt Parkway
- monopoly and oligopoly
- parks
- phase-in
- pork
- poverty statistics
- privatization
- privilege
- property tax is two taxes
- property tax reform
- property taxes
- revaluation 2007
- sales tax wrong
- schools
- sprawl
- tax caps
- tax reform
- taxes
- transfer tax
- transportation
- unburdening the economy
- underused land
- wages
- working poor
July 2009
Where Else Might You Look?
- Wealth and Want
The URL comes from the subtitle to Progress & Poverty -- and the goal is widely shared prosperity in the 21st century. How do we get there from here? A roadmap and a reference source. - Reforming the Property Tax for the Common Good
I'm a tax reform activist who seeks to promote fairness and reduce poverty. Let's start with the enabling legislation and state requirements for the property tax. There are opportunities for great good! - A blog about Stamford, Connecticut, and its opportunities for progress and prosperity for all
Bringing it home to one medium-sized city's day to day issues and opportunities - LVTFan's blog: Connecting the dots between our most serious problems and what I've come to believe is the solution we need to embrace.
I'm a tax reform activist who seeks to promote fairness and reduce poverty in America. Land Value Taxation seems to me to be our very best hope for these goals, and for reducing urban sprawl and its concomitants.
Sites I enjoy
- CityEconomist: City Economic and Financial News and Analysis
- Dr. Gavin R. Putland
- Land Rent will save the world
- Land Value Tax | Jock's Place
- Mark Wadsworth's blog
- Mason Gaffney's website
- Progress and Poverty: why there are recessions and poverty amid plenty -- and what to do about it! by Henry George
This is Bob Drake's excellent 2006 abridgment of Henry George's landmark book, Progress and Poverty. Its language and tone are very accessible. You can read it online or order hardcopy. And Bob's reading of it is available at http://www.hgchicago.org/audio - Saving Communities
- Taxpayer: a more or less Henry George view of things
- The Distributist Review
Categories
- artificial turf issue (1)
- assessment (18)
- better cities (21)
- canons of taxation (9)
- commons (4)
- cost of living (18)
- cui bono? (17)
- downtown (14)
- economic development (19)
- economic justice (7)
- environment (2)
- estate taxes (1)
- financing education (12)
- financing infrastructure (17)
- FIRE sector (2)
- golf (2)
- groceries (1)
- hole in the ground (10)
- housing (12)
- housing affordability (19)
- incentive taxation (13)
- land appreciates, buildings depreciate (14)
- land share of real estate value (18)
- land value taxation (24)
- Merritt (1)
- Merritt Parkway (2)
- monopoly and oligopoly (1)
- parks (2)
- phase-in (3)
- pork (1)
- poverty statistics (3)
- privatization (8)
- privilege (13)
- property tax is two taxes (13)
- property tax reform (25)
- property taxes (19)
- revaluation 2007 (9)
- sales tax wrong (5)
- schools (1)
- sprawl (6)
- tax caps (3)
- tax reform (17)
- taxes (14)
- transfer tax (1)
- transportation (7)
- unburdening the economy (11)
- underused land (15)
- wages (8)
- working poor (8)
Books I Value
- Henry George: Progress and Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth ... The Remedy
This is perhaps the most important book ever written on the subjects of poverty, political economy, how we might live together in a society dedicated to the ideals Americans claim to believe are self-evident. It will provide you new lenses through which to view many of our most serious problems and how we might go about solving them: poverty, sprawl, long commutes, despoilation of the environment, housing affordability, wealth concentration, income concentration, concentration of power, low wages, etc. Read it online, or in hardcopy. - Bob Drake's abridgement of Henry George's original: Progress and Poverty: Why There Are Recessions and Poverty Amid Plenty -- And What To Do About It!
This is a very readable thought-by-thought updating of Henry George's longer book, written in the language of a newsweekly. A fine way to get to know Henry George's ideas. Available online at progressandpoverty.org and http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm
Pages I refer to often
- Income Distribution in the US
How is our income distributed? Well, it is pretty concentrated. How concentrated? Take a look. - Progress and Poverty, by Henry George
Here are links to online editions of George's landmark book, Progress & Poverty, including audio and a number of abridgments -- the shortest is 30 words! I commend this book to your attention, if you are concerned about economic justice, poverty, sprawl, energy use, pollution, wages, housing affordability. Its observations will change how you approach all these problems. A mind-opening experience! - Wealth Concentration Tables from 2004 SCF: Bottom 90%, Next 9% and Top 1%
Aggregated data by net worth quantile, for various kinds of wealth. With calculations you won't find anywhere else! - Wealth Concentration Tables from 2004 SCF: 50-40-5-4-1
These tables show how concentrated the ownership of various kinds of assets are. With calculations you won't find anywhere else! This version is less aggregated: Bottom 50%, Next 40%, Next 5%, Next 4% and Top 1%.
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