Quotations

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Margarita Arias, Costa Rica:

Only those who have fought for the right to protect their own bodies from abuse can truly understand the rape and plunder of our forests, rivers and soils.

Aristotle (384-322BC):

The whole of the land was in the hands of a few, and if the cultivators did not pay their rents, they became subject to bondage ..

Marcus Aurelius (121-180AD):

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Cesare Baccaria:

The history of mankind is an immense sea of errors in which few obscure truths may be found.

Ambrose Bierce “The Devil’s Dictionary”:

Geonomics: Recovery of Site-Rents for Urban Density

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Jeffery J. Smith, President, Forum on Geonomics
[A paper submitted to the BSA of the AIA, 2003]

Around the world, a few dozen cities collect ground rents – some of the money that people spend or are willing to spend on a location – rather than tax buildings and other economic goods. Besides raising public revenue more efficiently, these places also motivate efficient use of urban land. No longer taxed for improving their property, while prodded by a rent levy to make improvements, owners who had been speculating or procrastinating get busy and put their once under-utilized land to better use. Overall, better land use raises density in particular and livability in general – goals that other jurisdictions still long for.

Tax Scams & Banking in Russia

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INSITE: Bulletin of the Land Policy Council
Editor: Fred Harrison, April 1996, Vol 2 (3)

Kill the Tax Scams and Create Jobs

IT’ S ENOUGH to make Marx turn in his grave! His arch champion, the Soviet Union, capitulated to the capitalists in 1991 just as the market economies crashed into their most severe crisis since the 1930s.

Government ministers from the seven richest nations on earth burdened with 24m jobless people, double the number since the spirit of Thatcher/Reagan was unleashed in 1979 – met in Lille on April 2 to agonise about what to do. Global unemployment is running at 700m people, according to the International Labour Organisation, but governments are bereft of ideas about what to do to liberate the labour market.