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IN THE NEWS: Art Laffer’s Nearly Right On Taxes But Not Quite
Forbes, 20 July ’13: An economist admired by Reagan cites the principle to follow but fails to follow it to…
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BLUE OREGON: Let’s turn the tide on a broken tax structure
Blue Oregon, October of 2013, posted another op-ed by our own duo of Tom Gihring and Kris Nelson on fixing…
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IN THE NEWS: How Much Money Can LVT Raise?
Slate, one of the largest and influential center-left political and cultural sites, estimates how much rent exists in the US. How Much…
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IN THE NEWS: Levying the Land
The Economist, June 29: “Governments should make more use of property taxes. A pure land tax, one without regard to…
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CGORWA IN THE NEWS: Examine land value taxation as solution to property tax problems
“Examine land value taxation as solution to property tax problems” by Kris Nelson. Oregon’s property tax structure is a good…
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IN THE NEWS: Will Anyone Break the Tax Taboo?
The New Statesman, June 20: How best to raise new revenue? Debate a land value tax; aligning income tax and…
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IN THE NEWS: Help to Buy risks helping to create another housing bubble
The (London) Observer, Apr 27: If homeowners pay a percentage of the value of their land each year, it could…
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IN THE NEWS: What’s the Next Big Idea?
George Monbiot, Apr 1, asked readers to nominate transformative ideas. The top two? Land tax and Basic Income. What’s the…
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IN THE NEWS: America Does Tax Wealth, Just Not Very Intelligently (AKA a land tax is a wealth tax)
Slate, Mar 3: You should tax land; that seems quite sound to me. Levying heavy tax rates on land –…
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IN THE NEWS: Towns Need Tax Reform Badly
There are two big problems with our property taxes: they are too high, and too low, notes Ontario Canada’s Barrie…
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