speculation in housing, real estate as an investment vehicle, unused land, inefficient tax policy and poverty could all be solved by Henry Georges single tax on the value of land
Why haven't you taken the Georgepill yet /pol/?
>Georgeism reconciles common land rights with private tenure, free markets and modern capitalism.
>Those who got the upper hand by securing land tenures would support public services, so wages and commerce and capital formation could go untaxed.
> To pay the taxes, landowners would have to use the land by hiring workers (or selling to owner-operators and owner-residents). This would raise demand for labor; labor, through consumption, would raise demand for final products.
>To pay the workers, landowners would have to produce and sell goods, hereby raising supply and precluding inflation. Needed capital would
come to their aid by virtue of its being untaxed. Thus, George would cut the Gordian knot of modern dilemma-bound economics by raising demand, raising supply, raising incentives, improving equity, freeing up the market, supporting government, fostering capital formation, and paying public debts, all in one simple stroke.
>George's proposal enables us to lower taxes on labor without raising taxes on capital. Indeed, it lets us lower taxes on both labor and capital at once, and without reducing public revenues.
> Georgist tax policy reconciles equity and efficiency. Taxing land is progressive because the ownership of land is so highly concentrated among the most wealthy,'8 and because the tax may not be shifted. It is efficient because it is neutral among rival land-use options: the tax is fixed, regardless of land use. This is one favourable point on which many modern economists actually agree, although they keep struggling against it
>>130441796
>George showed that a tax can be progressive and pro-incentive at the same time. Think of it! An army o fneo-classicalists preach dourly that we must sacrifice equity and social justice on the altar of "efficiency". They need that thought to stifle the demand for social justice that runs like a thread through The Bible, The Koran and other great religious works.
>The only shifting of a land tax is negative. By negative shifting I mean that the supply-side effects of taxing the rent of land will raise supplies of goods and services, and raise the demand for labor, thus raising the bargaining power of median people in the marketplace, both as consumers and workers. This effect makes the tax doubly progressive: it undercuts the holdout power and bargaining power of landowners vis-a-vis workers, and also vis-a-vis new investors in real capital. This effect also makes the landrent tax doubly efficient.
>A state, provincial or local government can finance generous public services without driving away business or population. The formulais simple: tax the rent of land, which cannot migrate, instead of the incomes of capital and people, which can. By eliminating the destructive "Wedge Effect", the land tax lets us support schools and parks and libraries and water purification and police and fire protection, etc., as generously as you please, without suppressing or distorting useful work, and without taxing investors in real capital.
> Georgist tax policy contains urban sprawl, and its heavy associated costs, without overriding market decisions or consumer preferences, simply by making the market work better. land values are the product of demand for location; they are marked by continuity in space. That shows quite simply that people demand compact settlement and centrality. A well-oiled land market will give it to them.
>>130441890
> Georgist tax policy creates jobs without inflation, and without deficits. "Fiscal stimulus," in the shallow modern usage, is a euphemism for running deficits, often with funny money. George's proposed land tax might be called, rather, "true fiscal stimulus". It stimulates demand for labor by promoting employment; it precludes inflation as the labor produces goods to match the new demand. It precludes deficits because it raises revenue. That is its peculiar reconciliatory genius: it stimulates private work and investment in the very process of raising revenue. It is the only tax of any serious revenue potential that does not bear down on and suppress production and exchange. As I have noted, George's fiscal policy takes two problems and composes them into one solution.
> George's land tax lets a polity attract people and capital en masse, without diluting its resource base. This is by virtue of synergy, the ultimate rationale for Chamber-of-Commerce boosterism. Urban economists like William Alonso have illustrated the power of such synergy by showing that bigger cities have more land value per head than smaller ones. (Land value is the resource base of a city.) Urbanists like Jane Jacobs and Holly Whyte have written on the intimate details of how this works on the streets. Julian Simon (The Ultimate Resource) philosophizes on the power of creative thought generated when people associate freely and closely in large numbers. Henry George made the same points in 1879
>Georgist policies encourage the conservation of ecology and environment while also making jobs, by abating sprawl. It is a matter of focusing human activity on the good lands, thus meeting demands there and relieving the pressure to invade lands that are now wild and marginal for human needs. Sprawl in the urban environment is the kind most publicized, but there is analogous sprawl in agriculture, forestry, mining, recreation and other land uses and industries.
>>130441796
Move to a commie country and be happy, you faggot.
So I've come down with strep so I won't be as active. But one of my roommates mentioned taking off later in July. Which happens to be in the timeframe of the Antifa no platform for hate speech rally.
Why did Germany know that a societal and governmental debt crisis would come... while no one else in this world (not even Goldman Sachs) knew it at the time?
>>130441730
They all knew you fucking retard. What are they going to do?
>oh we know we where going to fuck up but we did it anyway so you goys would bail us out
idiot
>>130441730
because Germans were the ones loaning money to all the other retards who weren't producing anything and couldn't possibly pay it back
The Republican party is now a cult as was demonstrated by the Cabinet Members praising Donald Trump yesterday. They're "honored" to serve in the worst administration in the country's history led by a sociopath in bed with Vladimir Putin.
We don't need no stinking investigation of Russian interference in a US election and we don't need any input from anyone that may tell the truth on the Healthcare law now being prepared in secret to be voted on without debate. The RNC wants the Russia investigation to end since they claim no evidence of collusion exists but the investigation hasn't concluded yet. So let's just forget about the whole thing. All that matters is a tax break for the wealthy who need it the least and at the expense of healthcare for those who need it the most.
You Republicans are so smart. You're dripping with empathy and caring for your own fellow citizens. Just like the head snake oil salesman, you guys clearly have the best interests of the nation at heart when making policy. Anyone who disagrees can take a body slam. That'll show all you lefties how the GOP operates.
>>130441699
I know this is bait and you are a gleefully hostile dumbass shill, but did you forget how completely fucked and destroyed leftism leaves every country it's practiced in?
You didn't think that would just go on forever without there being a response of some kind, did you?
>>130441911
fpbp checked and /thread
Stop it.
Also cringe/rage whatever thread I guess
>>130441304
We don't need fucking cringe threads in /pol/ unless it has something to do with actual politics or current events. This is neither and you faggots hardly ever dump and OC or contribute any meaningful discussions. Keep this /b/ tier shit in >>>/bant/
>>130441304
May Kek bless Führer Trump and Obergruppenführer Pence for many years to come. Death to the lügenpresse. Only get your information from Infowars,Breitbart and /ourguy/ Milo. Shadilay brotha!!
>>130441304
>indecisive thread
I have created a new type of meme. Try your hand.
Example in the comments
back to t_d
>>130441197
Why don't people accept their mistakes?
>Black are criminal race.
White's don't make you rob & kill.
>Americans meddle a lot.
>Brits are too nice to immigrants.
>Poo's have no real allies or they'd have destroyed muslims.
>Feminism is cancer.
Don't blame men if you're un worthy.
>Leaf is a fucking tard for passing the islam law.
You are Responsible for your actions,not other people.
Why did you demonstrate in my city today /pol/ ?
https://www.f-b.no/nyheter/kriminalitet/radhuset/den-nordiske-motstandsbevegelsen-tok-oppstilling-ved-radhuset-i-fredrikstad/s/5-59-786248
Fucking retards, they actually though Norway had free speech!
Americans are truly blessed, to have a clear-cut objective definition of tyranny that all 300 million of you are always in perfect agreement on, thereby relieving you of the need to reflect on whether or not the part of your national psyche that fetishizes armed revolution fuels the murderous fantasies of people like this or McVeigh. What a comfort that must be.
>>130440999
I wonder where he got that quote from?
>>130440999
*Hides*
>>130440999
How did this not age well? He is still not wrong, show me how Rand Paul or the republicans getting shot at are tyrannical?
SAGE you fucking faggot.
Multiple snackbar messages!
https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/876538439256215552
>>130440975
>https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/876538439256215552
First, if happening.
>>130440975
>snackbar
Reddit detected
Sage
> CORRECTION; Airport not evacuated,
trolls
I wonder 70% of black families celebrate Father's day?
>>130440863
Do prisons have visitation in Sundays?
Why doesn't anyone talk about this anymore?
>>130440806
because israel lost
How the fuck did my fellow Americans allow 13% of the population to gain so much power? Did we actually get outsmarted by the blacks? I would blame the Jews but what would be their endgame using knee-grows as pawns to ruin our society? They wouldn't really gain anything from it and just end up with a nation of basketball. I'm confused.
Create a society of mud people (Golem).
Have them consume,Vote,rinse repeat. Gain ultimate power and attain "Restful peace" by (((Their))) standard. While centralizing all wealth and resources to the few.
Read what the Talmud says about this and then pair it side by side with the words and actions of (((those))) in power now. Commies, Mudslimes, Blacks, and leftists are all a means to an end
>>130440639
Read some history. The Jews use whatever underclass is available to topple the government.
Then, they genocide the underclass.
They've done this dozens of times over past couple thousands of years, there's really no reason for you to ask such a question, unless you are an ignorant newfag who should lurkmoar before posting.
You know how scientists are always clamoring about how we know more about outer space then we do our own oceans?
Maybe there is a fucking reason for that
1. The ocean sucks
2. Who wants to be around some faggy fish
3. Fuck salt
Let me explain to you something /pol/
We never need to explore our fucking oceans because theres nothing cool down there
So dont you go looking because your going to waste your time my time and humanities time
I dont understand why anyone would wanna go check out that bullshit
If you wanna get the same experience just go to the deepend of the pool or a pond and its the same exact shit just deeper
I repeat there is nothing cool in our unexplored oceans and aint nobody got time to find out
Fpbp
>>130440622
Don't pay attention to the stars goyim, we still need to learn about the oceans!
>>130440622
>Faggy fish
Audible kek
How come the commie Obama never experienced one?
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=_-tEkACDTMw
>>130440599
>Assassination Attempts