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@benlockwood The environmental movement is just a negative application of the labor movements principle that workers ought to get the fruits of their labor. Nature isn’t the fruits of anyone’s labor, but everyone has an equal claim to it including future generations. #HenryGeorge had the right idea.
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@benlockwood The environmental movement is just a negative application of the labor movements principle that workers ought to get the fruits of their labor. Nature isn’t the fruits of anyone’s labor, but everyone has an equal claim to it including future generations. #HenryGeorge had the right idea.
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Modern Labour do not like tSnowden, but the first Labour chancellor he had one quality his successors should follow: he was a #Georgist, even penning an introduction to an edition of Henry George's' "Protection or Free Trade". Read it now Rachel & save your skin! https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/george-protection-or-free-trade
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Now hear me out please and let me know if this is wildly out. Lots of talk about taxing billionaires. But I *think* you might find it wouldn't even cover one week's worth of change recently in the budget black hole let alone give loads of dosh to spend on pet projects. UK's 55 billionaires if similar to those across the world, would be "worth" about $296bn in total. Not even 3/4 of a Musk. If you were to tax that capital value at 5% (a simple proxy for the entire income flow fro $296bn invested) you'd get just $14bn a year in extra tax.
If you want to tax better, stop looking at merely how much people have. And as Churchill said in his enlightened days as a #Georgist Liberal ask instead "how did you get it" and reward those who produce the wealth and tax those who take the surplus generated by the whole of society. #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #makepovertyhistory
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It's another politicians tinkering aimlessly (and destructively) day!
It's so frustrating being a #Georgist #SingleTax advocate on a budget day. You just want to scream "stupid people" at all o them! #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #valueourplanet #makepovertyhistory
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jlou/115339814897664687
Georgism and property theory contradict anti-taxation views. Land services and natural resources aren’t the fruits of anyone’s labor, but their use is a negative fruits of everyone’s labor. Taxation compensates for these liabilities everyone has.
Economists use efficiency criteria to judge capitalism, but I question those criteria. A system isn’t efficient if it doesn’t distribute its gains broadly.
#Georgism #Georgist #economics #econ #capitalism #capitalist #TaxationIsTheft
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jlou/115339814897664687
Georgism and property theory contradict anti-taxation views. Land services and natural resources aren’t the fruits of anyone’s labor, but their use is a negative fruits of everyone’s labor. Taxation compensates for these liabilities everyone has.
Economists use efficiency criteria to judge capitalism, but I question those criteria. A system isn’t efficient if it doesn’t distribute its gains broadly.
#Georgism #Georgist #economics #econ #capitalism #capitalist #TaxationIsTheft
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@davevolek The democratic federation aims to address this practical issue. It offers companies startup capital in exchange for non-voting preferred shares in the co-op and pay a percentage fee the value of the firm’s capital assets to the federation in a manner similar to a Harberger tax. I’d also collectivize land across the federation in a #Georgist style. Leases and land fees would be paid in the federation’s currency, which would have exit and transfer taxes. What are your thoughts on this?
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@davevolek The democratic federation aims to address this practical issue. It offers companies startup capital in exchange for non-voting preferred shares in the co-op and pay a percentage fee the value of the firm’s capital assets to the federation in a manner similar to a Harberger tax. I’d also collectivize land across the federation in a #Georgist style. Leases and land fees would be paid in the federation’s currency, which would have exit and transfer taxes. What are your thoughts on this?
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Interesting short write up from 1957 of the #Fairhope Alabama #SingleTax company, a successful long term #Georgist effort. The writers note that it is boring because it is so successful. https://cooperative-individualism.org/progress_review-of-paul-alyea-fairhope-the-story-of-a-single-tax-colony-1957-jul.pdf #equity #Georgism #Alabama
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Interesting short write up from 1957 of the #Fairhope Alabama #SingleTax company, a successful long term #Georgist effort. The writers note that it is boring because it is so successful. https://cooperative-individualism.org/progress_review-of-paul-alyea-fairhope-the-story-of-a-single-tax-colony-1957-jul.pdf #equity #Georgism #Alabama
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Which way #liberal?
#meme #philosophy #liberalism #libertarian #libertarianism #Georgism #HenryGeorge #Georgist #LibertarianLeft #LeftLibertarian #DavidEllerman #leftism #leftist #EconomicDemocracy #WorkplaceDemocracy #WorkerCoops #coops #cooperatives #selfmanagement #ThomasHodgskin #ElizabethAnderson #FrankKnight #Bastiat #mutualism #capitalism #capitalist #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #postcapitalism
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Which way #liberal?
#meme #philosophy #liberalism #libertarian #libertarianism #Georgism #HenryGeorge #Georgist #LibertarianLeft #LeftLibertarian #DavidEllerman #leftism #leftist #EconomicDemocracy #WorkplaceDemocracy #WorkerCoops #coops #cooperatives #selfmanagement #ThomasHodgskin #ElizabethAnderson #FrankKnight #Bastiat #mutualism #capitalism #capitalist #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #postcapitalism
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@zeerphling Natural resources and land are not the fruits of anyone's labor. The imperialist, by taking them without appropriating a liability to the community to which they belong, denies people's equal claim to them. Under #capitalism, the employer appropriates the positive and negative fruits of the workers' labor leading to a denial of the norm on which property is supposed to rest namely getting the positive and negative fruits of your labor
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@zeerphling Natural resources and land are not the fruits of anyone's labor. The imperialist, by taking them without appropriating a liability to the community to which they belong, denies people's equal claim to them. Under #capitalism, the employer appropriates the positive and negative fruits of the workers' labor leading to a denial of the norm on which property is supposed to rest namely getting the positive and negative fruits of your labor
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@MikeDunnAuthor I agree. We should also emphasize that the funding for it should come from a 100% land value tax on landlords. It should be emphasized that land is not the fruits of anyone's labor, so landlord have no right to this value
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@MikeDunnAuthor I agree. We should also emphasize that the funding for it should come from a 100% land value tax on landlords. It should be emphasized that land is not the fruits of anyone's labor, so landlord have no right to this value
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PCO: A New Model of Ownership
Partial Common Ownership (PCO) is a flexible template for reconfiguring property relations, which has inspired many of us at RadicalxChange because it opens the door to a different kind of conversation about #capitalism.
https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/pco-a-new-model-of-ownership/
@economics @economics-that-works
#economics #econ #EconTwitter #economy #EconomicJustice #liberalism #liberal #decentralization #Georgism #Georgist
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PCO: A New Model of Ownership
Partial Common Ownership (PCO) is a flexible template for reconfiguring property relations, which has inspired many of us at RadicalxChange because it opens the door to a different kind of conversation about #capitalism.
https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/pco-a-new-model-of-ownership/
@economics @economics-that-works
#economics #econ #EconTwitter #economy #EconomicJustice #liberalism #liberal #decentralization #Georgism #Georgist
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@Uraael A positive solution involves
1.The inalienable right to worker democracy with all firms structured as democratic worker #coops (https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/DEMOFIRM.pdf).
2. Common ownership of land and natural resources: #LandValueTax, #Georgism #Georgist, and carbon/pollution taxes.
3. UBI funded from revenue from the prior
4. Social ownership of the means of production through Harberger leases.
5. A variant of quadratic funding for campaign finance reform, and funding public goods -
@Uraael A positive solution involves
1.The inalienable right to worker democracy with all firms structured as democratic worker #coops (https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/DEMOFIRM.pdf).
2. Common ownership of land and natural resources: #LandValueTax, #Georgism #Georgist, and carbon/pollution taxes.
3. UBI funded from revenue from the prior
4. Social ownership of the means of production through Harberger leases.
5. A variant of quadratic funding for campaign finance reform, and funding public goods -
@captainrob @scottsantens Taxing 100% of land value and using it to fund the UBI would fix this. #LVT cannot be passed on to tenants due to land's inelastic supply. This policy essentially makes land collectively-owned, so moves us in a #postcapitalist direction.
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@captainrob @scottsantens Taxing 100% of land value and using it to fund the UBI would fix this. #LVT cannot be passed on to tenants due to land's inelastic supply. This policy essentially makes land collectively-owned, so moves us in a #postcapitalist direction.
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✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Emma Lazarus!
Emma Lazarus was a poet and activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. Her most famous work is "The New Colossus". A quote from the The New Colossus is inscribed on a plaque near the Statue of Liberty.
Lazarus believed in equality and the single tax movement. She also worked to assist Jews fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe, despite the fact that she herself came from a wealthy family of Sephardi Jews who had come to New York City (then New Amsterdam) in the Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam in 1654. She helped found the Hebrew Technical Institute and the Society for the Improvement and Colonization of East European Jews.
Her poems and positions appeared in many newspapers and publications of the time.
Many historians credit Lazarus for shaping the self-identity of the United States.
#JewOfTheDay #UnitedStates #StatueOfLiberty #poet #activist #NewYorker #NewYork #American #Georgist #SingleTax
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✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Emma Lazarus!
Emma Lazarus was a poet and activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. Her most famous work is "The New Colossus". A quote from the The New Colossus is inscribed on a plaque near the Statue of Liberty.
Lazarus believed in equality and the single tax movement. She also worked to assist Jews fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe, despite the fact that she herself came from a wealthy family of Sephardi Jews who had come to New York City (then New Amsterdam) in the Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam in 1654. She helped found the Hebrew Technical Institute and the Society for the Improvement and Colonization of East European Jews.
Her poems and positions appeared in many newspapers and publications of the time.
Many historians credit Lazarus for shaping the self-identity of the United States.
#JewOfTheDay #UnitedStates #StatueOfLiberty #poet #activist #NewYorker #NewYork #American #Georgist #SingleTax
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#introduction degree level economist, only on periphery of academia developing/supporting #VLE #moodle in Oxford, UK.
Love to be an academic economist and get the kudos of obscure chat shows calling up for an opinion, because there aren't enough Georgists or anarchists ever get asked 😜
But too advanced in career to make up my pension again if I switch now to academia!
So, any #Georgist, any #anarchist, do say hello!
#LVT #landvaluetax #anarchism #HenryGeorge #SingleTax #economicjustice
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#introduction degree level economist, only on periphery of academia developing/supporting #VLE #moodle in Oxford, UK.
Love to be an academic economist and get the kudos of obscure chat shows calling up for an opinion, because there aren't enough Georgists or anarchists ever get asked 😜
But too advanced in career to make up my pension again if I switch now to academia!
So, any #Georgist, any #anarchist, do say hello!
#LVT #landvaluetax #anarchism #HenryGeorge #SingleTax #economicjustice
