For a different view of lvt and related issues, such as alternative currencies, which few at the time were willing to print, google Michael Unterguggenberger....
Kevin Donnelly
kevin.donnelly87@...
Jan 2, 2007 5:23 pm
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Gunnar, I agree with the below, but wonder if it is to the point wrt the below on money metric utilities. This remains a given for households but not for the...
For a very different view of lvt, read Ashley Seager in today's Guardian (8 Jan 07) - p.24, A Land Tax is 200 years overdue; a review of an NIESR paper by...
Kevin Donnelly
kevin.donnelly87@...
Jan 8, 2007 12:06 pm
11198
Kevin, Do you really want to pay £5000 more tax a year, and see the price of your house fall by £100,000, just so that some commercial property owner can pay...
GEOFFREY GARDINER
geoffrey.gardiner@...
Jan 8, 2007 12:58 pm
11199
Dirk, The point at issue with respect to the MMUF goes to the very heart of the methodological differences between the Samuelsonian Mainstream Orthodoxy and...
Gunnar, Aha. Your objection is to the idea that one can create a function from a number of point observations, not with a fallacy-of-composition idea as I...
Dirk, The logical proposition "that one can[not] create a function from a number of point observations" has devastating implications for the foundations of...
Gang, Below a view counter to what most of you hold, singing the praises of inflation targeting as the new stability tool. The factual basis for his assertions...
070110 Gardiner to Gang re Paul C Martin's paper I have been mulling over the Paul C Martin paper, Power, the State and the Institution of Property*, since it...
GEOFFREY GARDINER
geoffrey.gardiner@...
Jan 10, 2007 9:14 am
11204
Gunnar, Thanks, again, for your lengthy reply. I studied 'econ 101' from another textbook and was fascinated to read this. Again it struck me that the...
Dirk, Not being a subscriber I cannot easily access the full text and can only comment at the moment on the abstract. The views expressed could be respected if...
Dirk, You might be uinterested in this extract from today's Daily Pfennig -- I'm still waiting for an answer from the Bureau of lies and massaged numbers AKA...
A very clear distinction must be made between a trade deficit which derives from a rapidly developing economy which imports substantial capital goods and an...
Dear Dirk, Somehow I failed to get the Martin paper. I had a server wipeout last week. Could you please send me a copy? thanks. Michael On 1/10/07 4:14 AM,...
070111 Chris, I hoped that I had made it clear on numerous occasions that I accept the right of the state to nationalise land if it can get democratic support...
Geoffrey Gardiner
geoffrey.gardiner@...
Jan 11, 2007 3:22 pm
11211
Dear Geoffrey, A land-value tax would not touch the value of Kevin¹s house, or anyone else¹s house or office building or other capital improvement. It would...
Dirk, Another piece from the Daily Pfennig today - Speaking of playing games and cooking books... The Bureau of Lies and Massaged numbers, AKA the Bureau of...
Dirk, Yes, I think we have reasoned our way to an agreement! Let me elaborate on two points. 1. In Foundations of Economic Analysis, as noted earlier,...
Gunnar, Very good. I especially like the Titanic example, which I will put to good use with my students. In this context , we have earlier discussed the idea...
Thanks, James. I am not a disbeliever in this but I don't know how the new math below went. So... now for a systematic, transparent overview of how jobs and...
070112 I am not sure I follow you Michael. All encumbrances on land affect the sale value. LVT is a state proxy for a groundrent and has the same effect on...
GEOFFREY GARDINER
geoffrey.gardiner@...
Jan 12, 2007 12:28 pm
11217
More from the Daily Pfennig - Another reader sent me a note that cracked me up! Here it is... "Chuck: if you knock the "L" out of BLS, you will get what it...
Dear Geoffrey, I would not think of calling into question your ability to assess property, or your economics for that matter. The only economic point where you...
Dear Michael. I just read through the exchanges below between you and Geoffrey. On reading the first message in the sequence - Dear Geoffrey, A land-value tax...
Dirk, You have raised a very important point - ....although it is useful to distinguish conceptually between per-definition equality and causality, this does...
Dear Gunnar, Good logical point. I deplore the change in the ORIGINAL US income-tax law that cut the ³capital² gains tax to just a portion of the normal tax...
Yes, Bill, after I sent the mail I did think of precisely the point you rose. However, you will note I did not send the note to other Georgists. I sent it to a...
Dear John, Thank you. A very interesting analysis indeed. You and I are pretty much on the same track - as always. My position is close to what you identify as...
Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute, FIRST: The great Bill Moyers spoke yesterday at the National Conference for Media Reform, in Memphis. You need...
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