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Land Value Tax for Wales
February 6, 2012 News, SlideshowWelsh Labour AM Mark Drakeford has given his backing to a “land value tax”. Read More http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2012/02/03/land-value-tax-would-be-fairer-says-mark-drakeford-am-91466-30256915/#ixzz1ldjWM2Yh The short debate in the Welsh Assembly is well worth listening do. Mark puts across his argument very clearly and distinctly. The response from other members is also very positive Video on LVT: http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/wales/newsid_9690000/9690359.stm
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Sacred Economics
December 5, 2011 Reviews, SlideshowHere is a helpful quote which gets to the heart of Henry George’s message form a new book entitled Sacred Economics Money Gift and Society in the Age of transition by Charles Eisenstein. You can see more details and download chapters of the book here Polarization of wealth is inevitable when people are allowed to [...]
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Why the rich are getting richer
December 1, 2011 News, SlideshowThe New Economics Foundation have recently published a study on why the rich are getting richer. The report focuses on the last two years and looks at both social and economic causes. For those who have studies the writings of Henry George there may be a little disappointment that the authors did not take the [...]
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Solving the housing problem and decreasing the deficit at the same time
November 10, 2011 Opinion, SlideshowThe UK economy is teetering on the brink of recession. Banks are reluctant to lend to stimulate business and the Government’s min priority is reducing its deficit by cutting public spending. It’s great fear is that it will be perceived to have borrowed too much, its creditors will lose faith and the cost of its [...]
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St. Paul’s Occupation.
October 30, 2011 News, SlideshowThe way that the Occupylsx protest was diverted from its original target of the London Stock Exchange and found itself on the steps of St. Paul’s cathedral has offered the opportunity of widening the issue under debate from an attack on the financial system to a more wide consideration of the state of morality [...]
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I F Report on the intergenerational crisis in the housing market
October 23, 2011 News, SlideshowThe Inter-generational Foundation recently published their report on the intergenerational crisis in the housing market, entitled: Hoarding of Housing. It highlights the way that many houses are under-occupied by the older generation effectively crowding out the younger generation from the housing market. It also points out the way the housing situation is forcing [...]
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Occupy LSX
October 21, 2011 News, SlideshowThe peaceful protest outside St. Paul’s Cathedral has been attracting statement. Do they have a message? Some of the media give the impression that it is rather an aimless gathering and the protesters are a disparate bunch so please take the trouble to read their initial statement and see if their message is clear and [...]
Read More »Land Banking
October 9, 2011 Archive, News, SlideshowNo one doubts there is a housing shortage in the UK but opinions differ on how to solve it. A culprit that is easy to blame is the planning system and the Government’s approach has been to attempt to relax planning rules. This has met with some opposition. In their campaigns against this relaxation which [...]
Read More »Who Owns our Green and Pleasant Land?
August 11, 2011 Media Watch, SlideshowFocusing on the 10,000 acre Criche Estate in Dorset which has recently come on to the market this article by Rim Adam’s in last week’s Observer draws attention to the change in the buyers of high value UK landed estates in the last 30 years. Previously it was mostly inherited wealth that provided the funds [...]
Read More »How to Make Britain Grow – The Land Value Tax
August 30, 2011 Media WatchIn the July issue of the Magazine Prospect Pier Carlo , economist of the OECD, wrote an article on “How to make Britain Grow” offering advice on what the UK can do to get itself out of the situation where economic recovery appears to have stalled. He was broadly in favour of the cuts but [...]
Read More »Land Value Taxation in the News
September 5, 2011 Media WatchLast week the policy strongly advocated by Henry George of taxing land values hit the front page of the British press. [see here] The Sunday Times [not available online without subscription] ran a column by Marie Woolf entitled “Lib Dems want a land tax on rich.” It suggest the Liberal Deomocrats are planning a new [...]
Read More »Land Value Tax petition
September 5, 2011 NewsThe Government has re-established its e-petition site. In August a petition was established on taxing land values: “To introduce Land Value Taxation, an annual tax on the rental value of land, as the chief source of government revenue to replace existing sources of taxation including income tax, VAT and Council Tax.” It is quite sensibly [...]
Read More »Land Value Tax – An idea whose time has come
September 7, 2011 Media WatchThere is a very good blog on land value taxation at flip chart fairy tales by Rick. It sounds like the author has only recently come across the idea to he puts it very freshly. Te context is the present crisis of public finance and the need to reduce the deficit between public spending and [...]
Read More »Let’s find progressive ways to tax the winners in our trickle-up economy
September 9, 2011 Media WatchThere is a good article by Simon Jenkins in today’s Guardian. It is a response to the letter in the FT earlier this week demanding a reduction in the 50p income tax band. “whenever 20 economists put their name to a letter it is a near certainty that nonsense is being perpetrated.” Jenkins points out [...]
Read More »Land & Liberty
September 9, 2011 NewsThe latest edition of Land & Liberty is now available to downloaded. Earlier editions can now be downloaded from the site as well
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Mirrlees Review
October 8, 2011 Archive, News, SlideshowThe Mirrlees Review the Institute of Fiscal Studies’ comprehensive review of the tax system chaired by Nobel Laureate has finally been published. It covers all aspects of the UK’s tax system and shows up how chaotic, irrational and unfair the present system is. The suggestions in the report are in the main a tidying up [...]
Read More »Time for an upgrade
October 8, 2011 Archive, Media WatchMark Braund has a good blog on the renegade economist website. Mark is a journalist and author of the Possibility of Progress. He gives a rounded account of the fundamental economic changes need are so desperately needed. “While unearned wealth is both a symptom and a driver of economic injustice, the objective of transformative social change [...]
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Bonkers Land Tax
October 8, 2011 Media Watch, SlideshowLand Value Taxation received a good airing in the FT this week. It started with an article by Tory MP Nicholas Boles who wrote a piece entitled: It sounds bonkers but we should embrace a land tax. Boles suggests that taxing land value is usually associated only with those not in the mainstream but he [...]
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