How Georgists should approach the rise of MMT

The bigger the benefit, the bigger the battle to win it, yet a German state did take the first step toward an economy for all.

Book summary with practical steps for founders to explore, create a venture, attract funding, secure reforms, and run self-sustaining "Startup Societies."

Aspects of Land Value Taxation Affecting Government, Land Owners, Communities, and Ethics

One of the ways to promote Geoism/Georgism and LVT is to run candidates for office.

The 2020s will inflict a lot of pain due to policy mistakes of the previous years and governments will be forced into long overdue corrections, which start with an LVT.

Highlights from the 2018 Council of Georgist Organizations Conference in Baltimore, MD.

A new Supreme Court ruling may require all companies to charge a sales tax when selling goods to residents in every state.

We don’t need fancy equations to analyze the optimal distribution of income. We simply divide income into earned income from wages and unearned income from economic land rent.

Sprawling development degrades human communities, worsens the decline of urban centers, and places ever-greater stresses on the environment.

On Publicizing Public Land Records. (Final excerpt)

Farmland assessment: Amenity values, expected rising cash flows, tax shelter values, mineral rights, and entitlement values.

Major biases in land assessment: Radio spectrum, rights of way, and severed property.

Major biases in land assessment: Tax exempt land, minerals, and water.

Major biases in land assessment: Slow-turning classes of property, different assessment methods, and preferential assessment.

Major biases in land assessment: Regressive assessment and raw land.

The many important functions and implications of land data: Forecasting from past cycles, finding the real interest rate, assessment discrimination, and planning public works.

The many important functions and implications of land data: Land as a credit base, raising consciousness of latent values, and protecting federal revenues.

The many important functions and implications of land data: concentrated holding and property taxation.

Alvin Johnson, an American economist at several universities, denigrated the logic and evidence for land-value taxation in an anti-scholarly manner.