Blog - Land Value Tax Campaign

Who or what to blame?

Written on 16 September 2008. Posted in Marxism.

Who or what is to blame for the present economic crisis? How about sloppy thinking? Such as using the phrase “Capitalist System” without being precisely clear what the terms Capital and Capitalism mean. So in a sense, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Most supporters of the movement for land value taxation – I will call it the “Single Tax movement” as shorthand...

US election

Written on 16 September 2008. Posted in General.

Republican candidate McCain says he will clean up Wall Street. His opponent Obama says that he does not subscribe to the Republican economic philosophy which has led to the unfolding economic disaster. So what are they going to do about what now looks as if it will be the worst economic dislocation since the 1930s. And would they do to prevent a recurrence? They aren’t saying, are they? But...

Ekonomiska frihetsförbundet

Written on 6 September 2008. Posted in Non-English.

Ekonomiska frihetsförbundet grundades år 1909. Målet var lösningen av jordfrågan och borttagning av dåvarande skatter. Ni kan läsa förbundets ursprungliga annons här

Hur skapades Monopol

Written on 4 September 2008. Posted in Non-English.

Föregångaren till Monopol hette “The Landlords Game” och skapades av Lizzie J Magie som en del av en kampanj för beskattning av jord. Spelet skulle påvisa att rådande egendomsförhållanden ledde till en stigande koncentration av makt och resurser. Som nu.

Land Value Taxation campaigning pitfalls

Written on 4 September 2008. Posted in History.

The Campaign holds to the concept of Land Value Taxation as proposed by Henry George in Progress and Poverty. This is not out of quasi-religious reverence for the words of a great prophet. It is simply that deviation from that concept will lead to failure. At one time, most LVT supporters were familiar with the underlying theory. This seems to be less the case now.

Who owns London?

Written on 31 August 2008. Posted in History.

In the seventeenth century, London was the City of London. As the eighteenth century progressed, aristocratic land owners started to develop their land; the Earl of Bedford was first, with Covent Garden, then came the Earl of Southampton with Bloomsbury Square, and the Earl of St Albans with St James’s Square. The 1760s saw the development of the Bedford Estate in Bloomsbury and the Portman...

Instituto Henry George

Written on 13 August 2008. Posted in Non-English.

Instituto Henry George A Spanish language site based in Nicaragua.

South Africa’s disputed land

Written on 10 July 2008. Posted in General.

Land reform in South Africa was discussed in a recent BBC programme “Crossing Continents – South Africa’s Promised Land:” It investigated the South African government’s controversial attempts to speed up the process of land reform. During the colonial and apartheid periods, ancestral land was taken over by white farmers. In an attempt to redress the injustice, new laws...

Two wrongs and no rights

Written on 12 June 2008. Posted in History.

Memorandum on the current situation in Zimbabwe Author: David MillsJune 2000 Foreword The Land Value Taxation Campaign (“the Campaign”) was formed in 1987 as a non-party body advocating a national land rent charge to replace conventional taxes which weigh on wealth creation. A statement summarising the argument is set out in “What Is Land Value Taxation?” . The Campaign...

Unemployment – Idle Men, Unfulfilled Wants

Written on 12 June 2008. Posted in General.

The relation between land and unemployment in a nutshell The economic process is in essence extremely simple. Man (Labour) fashions natural resources (Land) in to useful commodities (Wealth). Some Wealth is consumed directly, but some consists of items such as tools and machinery which are returned to the productive process to help create further Wealth. This is called Capital. The three factors...

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