by Lindy Davies
I don’t usually use the “try this” headphones at the big record store, but a new album by Ramsey Lewis caught my eye — with upraised hands of many colors, on the cover — so I had a listen, and from the very start of the joyous processional, “Oh Happy Day,” I was hooked. Continue reading
Ricardo’s Law: House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback Scam, by Fred Harrison, 2006, Shepheard-Walwyn, 320.pp. Review by Ed Dodson.
Although there is consistent truth in the statement, “history is written by the victors,” the voices of critics now and again emerge from the wilderness. Continue reading
by Bruce Oatman
Those of us who know of no other remark by Henry George about Karl Marx than his description of him as “the Prince of Muddleheads,” will be surprised to learn that an earlier commentary by George has come to our attention in the form of a letter that was read at a memorial service for Marx at New York’s Cooper Union on March 20, 1883. Continue reading
by Lindy Davies
Some years ago I came across a text called “We May Be Brothers After All — A letter to President Franklin Pierce from Chief Seattle, ca. 1854”. It was a stirring call to honor and respect the natural world, a message worth spreading. So I copied it and handed it out to many people. Then a New York Times article (April 21, 1992) informed me that the “Seattle Speech” of which I was so fond was a fiction. Continue reading
by Mason Gaffney
Over many centuries we can observe that major peace and disarmament treaties have kicked off land booms by lowering taxes — all kinds of taxes. We also often observe that the booms lead to busts. A few examples follow: Continue reading
by Dr. Polly Cleveland
As Kevin Phillips recorded in Wealth and Democracy (2002), war has created the opportunity for many great fortunes. Thus the frenzied looting — and disregard for the lives of both US soldiers and corporate employees — displayed in Robert Greenwald’s new film Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. Continue reading
by Dan Sullivan
The trouble with people is not that they don’t know, but that they know so much that ain’t so. — Josh Billings
Many of my Georgist colleagues don’t want to hear more about global warming, which is all right with me. However, there is a much larger issue behind the global warming issue, and it is particularly pertinent to the difficulties that Georgists encounter. Continue reading
by Paul Martin
Living the daily struggle that George writes about in the last chapters of Progress and Poverty, wherein he warns against the inadequacy of the facade of political democracy wherever the distribution of wealth is unjust, we all must have our observations of the absurd twists of reality which are children of such a system. Continue reading
by Richard Giles
Traditionally, common land has been regarded as free for everyone touse. Now, tolls, and/or congestion charges, are operating on many roads, beaches, beauty spots and national parks throughout the world. Continue reading
by Dan Sullivan
There has recently been a long and rambling discussion over whether land values would fall if land were taxed heavily. It’s probably worth noting that there are some statements on this topic that we can make with assurance. Continue reading