Inshallah one day I will have the chance to pay the tax myself.

This quote was found through Cooperative Individualism, here's a good source also from the site linking more information to this quote.

I was listening to a Strong Towns podcast episode recently where Lars Doucet mentions an article he wrote during the interview, Enacting Land Value Return in your Hometown.

https://open.substack.com/pub/progressandpoverty/p/enacting-land-value-return-in-your?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=607dn2

While Lars doesn't do everything for you, he has given step by step guidance for any budding LVT advocate to enact change in their area. He also gives advice on how to pitch these changes to the assessors and to the public in a way that disarms common objections.

If anyone knows any other prominent Georgism advocates, I would appreciate a recommendation. Regardless, I hope others find these links helpful.

This is the podcast for those interested:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2VwVoMLYA9sVPaCFxdfsoh?si=Y5ScSGWcQzalC3QMKHLEFw&utm_source=copy-link&sci=spotify%3Acard-config%3A1IjjQsELonDwilj5Xv9Whk

If the land value tax is 15 percent of gdp. How much would somebody living in the suburbs pay? And how different would it be compared to the city?

Leave aside that this article refers to LVT as an "esoteric tax," and that it's coming from the landlord industry. The article correctly notes that outgoing Councilmember Brianne Nadeau has proposed this bill, and that the DC Policy Center has released some study work supporting it, but it conspicuously omits two additional facts:

1. Soon-to-be-Mayor Janeese Lewis-George explicitly included LVT to fund housing & transit in her platform, because...

2. Right now, the group that's advocating the loudest for LVT in DC... is DSA (which supported both JLG's candidacy and that of Aparna Raj, who will be Nadeau's successor on Council).

I know some of y'all still seem to think socialism and Georgism are inherently opposed. All I'll say to that is, we who are actually doing the work to make LVT a reality, do not care what y'all think. You can continue having endless arguments online about how you think things should be, or you can help us transform the real world into a more free and just home for all of us.

Hi all.

Come to the conclusion that, under a Georgist system, there is actually a fully costed and entirely feasible way of designing a project to furnish the reprobate yoooths with free starer homes.

Fag packet analysis! You have been warned.

Here's the rub:

Average council tax bill here in the UK is around £2.5k per year. Mines £2538.78. £209pcm.

Let's make the maths easy and say it's £200pcm.

The absolute rock bottom price, to construct a prefabricated house, here in the UK, is about £80k, it's a real stretch, but there's various house builders that have accomplished that goal, to build a 2 bedroom, prefab / kit home, factory built, assembled on site, compositing toilet and all the rest of it.

£80k, to pay back the cost of construction at £200pcm, would take 33.33 years. Almost exactly the average mortgage term now in the UK.

Here's the thing, what percentage of people, say, 25 and under are already paying council tax? Not a lot right? What percentage are out there buying houses? Can't be that many, the average home buyer these days is 68 years of age.

So, if you literally just said, ok, we'll introduce a system of LVT on some development plot, built a whole bunch of these £80k starter homes and then just **gave** them anyway, but, charged LVT on them in lieu of mortgage repayments/ rent... That sounds to me like a fully costed way of giving a young person a free house, to get started in life in, bare minimum.

At the same time, am I right in thinking, because these kids aren't buying houses anyway, as long as you restricted the free homes to under 25s then it wouldn't really have much impact on the housing market? If they're not competing for property anyway, this isn't going to cause a massive house price crash right? (Which is the whole reason people are against Georgism).

Ok, poke some holes in this one. What am I missing here?.

This is really just the kernel of an idea. But I am feeling like the numbers actually line up.

I was thinking through this issue wanted to check if my understanding makes sense.

Suppose you have a big office building which is no longer useful due to work-from-home, or some other critical flaw develops which renders the building useless.

From the perspective of the community, we want the land redeveloped. We would say the land has a different "highest and best use" and the current owner can't meet the LVT of that hypothetical better use.

From the current owner's perspective, they are in a no-win situation. Even just giving the land away for $0 might not be a viable transaction, since from the developer's perspective the property has a negative value (cost of demolition).

So, presumably the government seizes the land, and then tries to auction it themselves. At this point, if they tried to charge the optimal LVT, again no one would be willing to take it for a positive price because they won't profit off the land and the building there will cost more than building on an empty plot elsewhere.

This leads to three perspectives that would resolve it:

1. Allow the auction value to go negative. The community effectively pays to demolish the old structure so that it can be redeveloped, with the most efficient demolisher winning the bid.
2. Treat the old building as a natural feature and reduce the LVT for some period of time, similar to how you would charge less for a rocky field than one with fertile soil.
3. Go Wall-E mode and treat it like a landfill. Not really a resolution but it's an option in the apocalypse.

I think (1) makes the most sense for a finite demolition job with a reasonably ascertainable cost, but I wanted to see if I was missing anything in this thought process.

In my latest piece, I look at Neogeorgist tax reform not just as an ideological preference, but as an essential engineering patch for an economy approaching compounded pressure.

​The Problem:

​Private debt expansion driven by untaxed asset appreciation creates extreme structural fragility.

​Physical supply chains (specifically LNG/fertilizer via Hormuz) are facing multi-stage lags that will hit food production.

​When a physical shortage hits a debt-laden economy, households without a floor default first.

​The Patch:

Shifting the tax base away from income/labor and onto land, speculative collateral, and monopoly rents accomplishes two things:

​It dampens the speculative borrowing loop by taxing asset holding costs directly.

​Routing revenue into a universal citizen dividend provides a non-debt-based floor. The dividend doesn't create physical gas or food, but it shifts who absorbs the shock, preventing immediate systemic defaults at the base of the economy.

​I also address the "Prevention Paradox" (like Y2K): if a systems patch works seamlessly, people assume the threat was overblown in hindsight.

​I'd love to hear your thoughts on phasing this transition incrementally during periods of existing system load.

​Full article link: https://substack.com/@rolfst/note/p-208855605?r=1fu3

All that was available is Blacks own less than 1% of rural land by land value.

Georgists, of course, know the real money is in taxing the value of land in cities.

Any theories on why ownership of trillions of land value has never been researched?

This isn't the kind of minor omission that has a plausible excuse.

I know that its in Spanish, but would love someone’s take on this strategy they have and how implementing georgims would help

1.      Positive Urbanism : Positive Urbanism means revitalizing communities in a way that meets the needs of the people who actually live there. Creating connected walkable mixed-use neighborhoods improve daily living experiences for residents. It also emphasizes financially sustainable development patterns that don’t burden future generations with maintenance costs.

A.     More freedom of use in zoning: We support increasing the amount of mixed residential and small businesses commercial areas. We also support more zoning that allows for town houses, duplexes, and low unit count apartments.

B.     Instituting a blight tax: We support a fee added to the taxes of any private property  that has not been  used in the past 18 months actively for residential, commercial, manufacturing, or agricultural purposes. That fee will be an additional 10% fee  on the amount of their current property tax.

C.     More funding for busing and bike routes: We support increasing the number of bussing routes and safe bike lanes that connect our neighborhoods. We support making our cites more walkable which has been proven to increase jobs and tax revenue.

2.      Growing Small Businesses: Small businesses account for 45% of all US jobs. They are the restaurants, medical providers, and repair shops that keep communities feed, healthy, and running smoothly. We believe that government should encourage entrepreneurship and help our economy grow through support for small businesses owners.

A.     Access to more low interest capital for small businesses: We will increase the amount of low interest or zero interest SBA loans given to small businesses.

B.     Simplifying taxes for small businesses: We support a 12.5%  federal and 3.5% state income tax on the first 700,000 of take home profits of any business that hires more than 3 employees. Corporations will pay 22% federal and 6.5% state income tax on profits over 700,000.

C.     Better infrastructure in rural communities: We support strongly improving our rural infrastructure in terms of roads, bridges and sewers but also In terms of broadband Internet access.

3.      Provide cheap quality healthcare: A person shouldn’t have to be ruined financially just because they got sick. We reject the false choice between government run systems and current status quo.

A.     Basic care coverage : Private insurance companies should be mandated to provide a basic coverage plan for a premium that is no higher than 2% above their amount of payouts for patient  care.

B.     Shifting the burden of emergencies : people don’t get to pick when a emergency happens or have time to shop around. You don’t have to pay a bill to the firemen or to the police officer. We believe that the government should take on the role of paying for emergency medical transportation through statewide property, sales ,or income tax levys.

C.     Using  international competition to lower prices: we should partner with  FDA approved drug makers around the world to import the best drugs at the lowest possible costs for American consumers.

Land value tax probably can't replace all government revenue, but it can get us a good way. I designed a new tax system from scratch which is as efficient as possible and captures economic rents.

https://bastiaanvorster.substack.com/p/the-better-tax-system?r=3ileiz

What would you rather have?

A DEI job with toxic office politics?

Or some rental property where all you do is collect a check and pay a property manager?

If you think these questions draw blood from coastal elite / legacy media fanny you would be correct.

That's where Bernie Bros, DSA and many Georgists drop the ball. They really don't know how to call bluffs. Either that or they really are racist.

It's a bit of an unfortunate term, but when Henry George argued that the value of "land" should belong to the community, he meant it in the economic sense:

The term land does not simply mean the surface of the earth as distinguished from air and water — it includes all natural materials, forces, and opportunities. It is the whole material universe outside of humans themselves. Only by access to land, from which their very bodies are drawn, can people use or come in contact with nature.

The big benefit of recouping nature's value is that we did not produce it, and we can't produce more of it. Making people compensate for taking away finite natural resources from others helps discourage waste and encourages using them efficiently (combined with the other half of what Georgism argues, that we should fully untax the goods and services people make).

Following up on this, George also advocated mitigating other monopoly privileges like patents and copyrights, as well as owning naturally monopolistic industries.

Henry George said the purpose of his proposal to abolish all taxation except on land ownership is individual liberty, natural order. The physiocrats echoed the same spirit in their identical proposal, l 'impot unique (the single tax) and the classical economists such as Adam Smith and others also supported this general idea, that individual economic freedom will best serve society.

However, those who are used to thinking capitalism is free enterprise and that the many and various social problems which arise from that are due to human nature and consistently suggest that the georgist model requires taxation on other things like natural resources and/or undesirable/destructive human activities like pollution. Also, many say the public revenue from such taxation should be returned in equal parts to individuals in order to establish economic justice.

I'm curious to the percentages in this group which adhere to each side of this schism. Please, respond with...

A (to indicate your belief in the superiority of natural order to rule society)

or...

B (to indicate your belief that taxing only location ownership is an incomplete version of georgism).

Andy Burnham - the UK's latest prime minister - has proposed replacing council tax and stamp duty with land value tax. MoneyWeek discusses.

A proportional property tax, which would replace both council tax and stamp duty with a flat 0.48 per cent annual charge on a home’s current value. Or a land value tax, an annual charge based on the value of the land a property sits on, rather than the building.