#sharetherents — Public Fediverse posts

You're not ever going to fix an economy with the same tools of robbery and reward that broke it. At least more than temporarily. #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/budget-taxes-food-prices-reeves-strives-economy-4064613?ito=link_share_article-top

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

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

As long as you tax it, work won't pay anything like as well as rent seeking #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory #valueourplanet #makeworkpay. Our so called "leaders" are either complicit or numbskulls!

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/social-mobility-flatlining-despite-increased-he-participation

Strive for a world in which charity and hand-outs dependent on politicians are no longer needed:

#abolishtaxes #sharetherents #makepovertyhistory #superchargetheeconomy #valueourplanet #renderpoliticiansirrelevant #radicalfreemarkets

You, and your political favourites, are not pro-life if you do not recognise the absolute right of everyone born on the planet you didn't create to a place on it on which to live that life.

That's all of you: #labour #libdem #tory #green #reform

#sharetherents #makepovertyhistory #abolishtaxes

If your party's platform rests on taxing wealth, trade & incomes while privatising economic rents of land & monopolies then you are poverty promoters, productivity preventers.

#abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory

#labour #tory #libdem #green #reform

All of you.

All the "housing policy" you make then fail to achieve as Lloyd-George said "will never be effective until you tackle the taxation of land values".

If you don't implement land value taxes, you are not serious about housing problems. #landvaluetax #sharetherents #abolishtaxes #superchargetheeconomy

The #singletax of #henrygeorge will liberate us! Don't tax more, Rachel! Tax smarter, Keir! @libdems.org.uk

#abolishtaxes on production, work and trade entirely. #sharetherents of land, locations and monopolies.

#superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory #valueourplanet #undercutthetariffs

How to beat Trump's silly tariffs: make yourself an economically more efficient country. Relieve your producers of those internal tariffs, taxes on labour, production and trade, to enable them to undercut the Trump tariffs if they want to. Collect the rents of the county that everyone has to pay anyway. #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #undercutthetariffs

#abolishtaxes that penalise labour, production and trade
#sharetherents collect instead all the economic rents of land and nature we don't individually create or are entitled to.
#superchargetheeconomy
#makepovertyhistory
#valueourplanet

Too bad for her then that 2026 is the end of the 18 year land cycle: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/rachel-reeves-one-chance-survival-involves-house-3568504?ito=link_share_article-top

#abolishtaxes #sharetherents (of land especially) #superchargetheeconomy #valueourplanet #makepovertyhistory #truefreetrade

I've often found @matthewsyed's opinions interesting, but hadn't made this connection before - fullsome praise for a #LandValueTax switch and unlike many he clearly understands it: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/get-ready-keir-starmer-economy-poorer-poland-labour-jc06db9kt

#abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory #valueourplanet

So, Britain, use your freedom from the EU to make a big gain: https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-could-be-hit-with-tariffs-of-up-to-24-as-trump-targets-vat-3535341?ito=link_share_article-top Abolish VAT. It is a terribly regressive tax and favours larger firms over smaller firms. Eradicate this source of righteous annoyance! #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy

You can't fight trade war tariffs effectively while you gleefully impose tariffs on your own labour and productive investment at home. You are penalising your producers 30% or more already. #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #henrygeorge https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/george-protection-or-free-trade

Is your country threatened by Trump-tariffs? Don't retaliate in kind! Retaliate by boosting your own economy by at least as much as the tariffs for long term gain: #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #henrygeorge https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/george-protection-or-free-trade

Times of London: "Budget has caused economy to stagnate, Bank of England says". Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, #HenryGeorge showed what you should do:

#abolishtaxes
#sharetherents
#superchargetheeconomy
#makepovertyhistory
#valueourplanet

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/budget-has-caused-economy-to-stagnate-bank-of-england-says-vbmr7gf6d

@davva23

Of course the "system is broken" - it's a feature not a bug of the way things have worked for more or less as long as there have been governments. Here's how to fix it - as explained 150 years ago:

#abolishtaxes
#sharetherents
#makepovertyhistory
#superchargetheeconomy
#valueourplanet

Not nationalise. Markets are important to help determine where and how much housing there needs to be. Politicians have failed in this for decades. But once you take the land value out, and we stop paying both land rent *and* taxes on our labour, it becomes so much easier and solves a whole load more economic issues than merely the housing situation.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBk_iIfvOE7sJ19GWJxantdNobRjECRir

Of course the "system is broken" - it's a feature not a bug of the way things have worked for more or less as long as there have been governments. Here's how to fix it - as explained 150 years ago:

#abolishtaxes
#sharetherents
#makepovertyhistory
#superchargetheeconomy
#valueourplanet

Angered by royal rentierism? Take the plank out of your own eyes too: “As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.” (Adam Smith).

That means every last one of you who owns any land expecting it to make you any kind of a profit.

#abolishtaxes
#sharetherents
#superchargetheeconomy
#makepovertyhistory
#valueourplanet

Not a scintilla of imagination @RachelReevesMP as to how to fix the broken system, rather than just poking around in its dying embers to see if you can make it work again? #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory #valueourplanet #henrygeorge

When will we get a Chancellor, a government, who dares, aspires, to fix the broken system, rather than just pick and poke around in its dying embers to see if they can make it work again?

#abolishtaxes
#sharetherents
#superchargetheeconomy
#makepovertyhistory
#valueourplanet

When a government tells you to "brace for budget pain" which is entirely unnecessary, a. they are not doing (or even understanding) their job and b. they like inflicting pain.

#abolishtaxes
#sharetherents
#makepovertyhistory
#superchargetheeconomy
#valueourplanet
#HenryGeorge

How is it that giving away free money in the form of a "Basic Income" has become such a cause celebre whereas Henry George's #SingleTax which will do far more to create a just economy and coincidentally leave enough money to fund a "Citizens Dividend" if wanted remains obscure?

Everyone moans about taxes, most of which the "#SingleTax" would end, supercharging the economy, rewarding investment/work, cutting up front cost of living in the form of reduced land rents.

Many still struggle in the meantime to explain where "Basic Income" would be paid from.

#abolishtaxes
#sharetherents
#superchargetheeconomy
#makepovertyhistory
#valueourplanet

#HenryGeorge
#SingleTax

Note, I have no ideological problem with using the surplus of the community collection of location rents over what government requires to spend, as a free dividend, but that is a very different beast from a defined "income" that needs to be funded come what may.

What do "Georgists" need to do to get as much traction as "Basic Income"?

Get's closer than @TheIFS to suggesting a land tax at least. But wants to do so much more it's dizzying. But he's right, our relationship to our land and natural resources has skewed all of our 300 years of supremacy! #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #LVT

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/matthew-syed-the-west-hasnt-figured-out-whats-going-wrong-voters-are-the-problem-6nf629mbs

#ukge24: no party has the tiniest nudge to make about tax. Here's a radical tax manifesto:
#abolishtaxes on earnings and profits from productive work and investment, on trade, inheritance etc.
#sharetherents of land (locations) and natural resource.
#superchargetheeconomy
#LVT

#ukge24: If only someone could whip up as much rage toward the real scourge of society, the rentier, as some manage to whip up about immigrants, minorities or whoever. #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory No, every party's in rentiers' pocket.

#ukge24: all parties are either knowingly and deliberately LYING to you or are utterly PIG IGNORANT about running an economy and still c35 MILLION of you will vote for one or the other of them. #abolishtax #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory #valueourplanet

#ukge24: everyone in this election appears to feel that the deadweight losses their tax policies inevitably & deliberately impose on national productivity are just a fact of life to be endured. They are not. #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #LVTwouldsolvethis

There is no national political party in #ukge24 that wants to start making a proper dent in ingrained poverty in our corrupt economic system. Or has the courage to talk about where to start. #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #makepovertyhistory They should all be ashamed and shunned!

@DannyYee As is right. Shelter is a cost of living, like food, transport and fuel. And capital always depreciates. The only things that make shelter more costly after forty years are the desperation of others and the contribution of the entire community to maintaining an in demand location, values that should go back to that community.

#abolishtaxes
#sharetherents