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Henry George Institute: Providing Courses On the Progressive Economic Theories of Henry George #georgism, #lvt, #liberty, #economics, #inequality #democracy

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The decay of civilization starts from the bottom up.

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Earthquakes. Minerals. AI data centers. Different headlines, same Georgist lesson: land and natural opportunities gain value from nature + society. Capture that value for public resilience; stop taxing work. #ProgressAndPoverty #LVT
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AI growth will raise land values near power, fiber, and water. Without LVT, windfalls go private. With LVT, that value funds the grid, housing, and public services AI will strain. #DataCenters #Georgism
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AI data centers don’t just use computers. They use land, water, grid capacity, and public infrastructure. LVT says: tax the scarce opportunity, not the worker. Make AI growth pay its own community bill. #AI #LandValueTax

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A mining boom should not leave towns with higher rents, scarred land, and low wages. Capture resource rent; fund roads, schools, cleanup, and dividends. Let labor keep what it creates. #ResourceRent #ProgressAndPoverty
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Critical minerals are gifts of nature plus community infrastructure, not pure corporate creation. Let miners earn from work and risk, but collect mineral rent for the public. That’s George applied to 2026. #CriticalMinerals #Georgism

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Want safer buildings after earthquakes? Don’t tax the retrofit. Tax the site value. LVT rewards rebuilding and resilience while collecting the community-created value of land. #LVT #DisasterPreparedness
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Earthquakes don’t create weak infrastructure; they reveal it. LVT turns rising land values into steady funds for seismic upgrades, water systems, fire stations, and recovery, before crisis hits. #ProgressAndPoverty #LandValueTax

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Rent is not just payment for a building.

A big part is payment for location: jobs, transit, parks, schools, customers, density.

Henry George asked why that location value, created by the city, should be privately captured.

That is the Georgist housing question.

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Housing affordability is not only a construction issue.

It is a land issue.

Henry George argued that taxing land value discourages speculation and rewards productive use.

NYC’s affordability debate should include land value taxation.
#Housing #Georgism

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Henry George ran for NYC mayor in 1886 because he saw the same contradiction:

A city growing richer while workers struggled with rent.

That is Progress and Poverty.

Mamdani’s budget debate is a chance to revive the older NYC conversation: Georgism @NYCMayor

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Georgism is not “government owns everything.”

It is: people keep what they earn, and the community recovers the land value the community creates.

That is the third door between “tax everything” and “let land rents be privatized.”

Read Henry George.

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Income can move. Corporations can restructure. Wealth can hide.

Land cannot leave.

That is why Henry George focused on land value: the value created by the city, captured from fixed locations, not from work or production.

NYC’s budget debate needs this Georgist lens @NYCMayor

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Public investment raises land values.

Transit, parks, schools, safety, density, sanitation, all make locations more valuable.

Henry George asked why that community-created value should be privatized while labor and buildings are taxed.

That question is still alive in NYC.

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“Tax the rich” is a slogan.

“Tax unearned land value instead of labor and production” is a theory.

That theory is Georgism.

Henry George saw how progress could raise rents while workers stayed squeezed. NYC is still living that story.
#Georgism

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A luxury NYC second home is valuable because of more than the unit itself.

Transit, streets, parks, workers, density, and public life create location value.

Henry George’s point: community-created land value should help fund the community.

That is #Georgism.

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The better question is not “Should NYC tax more?”

It is: “What should NYC tax?”

Henry George’s answer: stop taxing productive work and improvements. Capture land value created by the community.

That is not socialism. That is Georgism.
#ProgressAndPoverty

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Many call Mamdani’s tax agenda “socialist.”

Henry George would ask a sharper question:

Are we taxing work, buildings, and production or the land value created by the city itself?

That is the Georgist pivot.

Read Progress and Poverty.
#Georgism #LandValueTax

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If you could ask Henry George one question about today's housing crisis, what would it be?

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‘All taxes work the same.’ Land is different because supply is fixed. Should fixed-supply things be taxed differently?

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If you could ask Henry George one question about today’s housing market, what would it be? Drop your question-short is fine.
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