The UK statute stripping the House of Lords of its veto over money bills and reducing its power over other legislation to a two-year delay — the direct constitutional aftermath of the Lords' 1909 ...

Someone just threw an objection at you. Find it here: what they say, what you say back in one or two sentences, the honest concession to make first where the criticism has real force, and the page to ...

British Columbia's provincial Crown corporation, created in 1974, that independently values every property in the province for property-tax purposes — cited by Common Wealth Canada as ready-made ...

A quote lands in a room where a citation doesn't. This is the advocate's supply of verbatim, verified lines — every quotation below is transcribed word-for-word and linked to the wiki page that holds ...

"Land Planning and the Property Tax" is Mason Gaffney's article in the AIP Journal (the journal of the American Institute of Planners, predecessor to today's Journal of the American Planning ...

George opens by rejecting the dominant late-Victorian explanation of civilization's advance: the Spencerian view that progress is a slow evolutionary transformation of human nature itself, fixed by ...

"An Introduction to Two-Rate Taxation of Land and Buildings" is a survey paper by Jeffrey P. Cohen (then assistant professor of economics, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford) and Cletus ...

The wiki's DST incidence page covers the theory (Cui & Hashimzade's location-specific-rent rationale) and the sharpest single incidence estimate (Muddasani & Langenmayr's finding that Amazon passed ...

"'Capital' Gains and the Future of Free Enterprise" is a chapter Mason Gaffney originally wrote in mid-1991 (revised December 1991) for Richard Noyes's edited volume Now the Synthesis, with the text ...

The Physiocrats are the most direct pre-classical ancestors of the Georgist single tax. The lineage runs Physiocracy → the classical critique → George: Smith devotes the whole of Book IV, Chapter IX ( ...

A patent or copyright is a government-granted temporary monopoly — a deliberately-created rent. It is the most contested rent in the Geoist file, because here the rent is supposed to BE the incentive.

Liberation theology is a movement in Christian theology, rooted in mid-20th-century Latin American Catholicism, that interprets the Gospel as a call to liberate the poor from conditions of structural ...