I'm no longer signing in here. I can be found, if you really want to, at:
https://t.co/o3hCPYIEaG
https://t.co/VUKCNe8Wo4
...and for now at least, less actively, at FB and Threads.
"As soon as land becomes private property, the landlord demands a share of almost all the produce." - Adam Smith
"Rent is the secret tax the wealthy charge the poor." - Joseph E. Stiglitz
"Solving the land question means the solving of all social questions." - Leo Tolstoy
Governments ignore reality (#RentSeeking) because they want to continue the legalised parasitic activity. Misgovernance is responsible for each UK socio-economic crisis, shortly to converge when site values peak—as soon as next year. [Fred Harrison] ⚖️
VAT receipts rose by £9bn to £169bn in 2023-24, inflicting an avoidable deadweight loss on UK output of at least the same sum.
Hint to UK governments—replace with #LocationRent to zero the devastating annual losses.
https://t.co/BDeULQ6WKc
Not in itself a bad thing to take a dead hand (or dead little finger) of regulation off financial services. But imagining you can increase growth by increasing house prices, and sucking more savings into property... LUNACY. We are governed by idiots.
Arguing against the single tax is impossible. So, to prevent public awareness, those who oppose it pretend to be promoting #HenryGeorge, the reform's most famous advocate, while calling for other things besides the single tax.
The tactic is called "obfuscation". Don't be fooled.
The alternative to Capitalism isn't Communism.
The alternative to Communism isn't Capitalism.
It's Georgism, and it fixes all this.
https://t.co/bC8j3iju2y
I'm so fed up of 2025 already. I have a sense of dark foreboding for this year. One of these years these people are going to be right, and I feel the auguries are right for it to be soon:
If you think it is possible to produce an annual return of more than 25% on sub market value housing you should not have control of your own money, frankly. This sort of claim is all too common, and if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
https://t.co/F9p8Qm7LRp
@bygeorgist @RichardDias_CFA And it was deliberate in the UK, cooked up between Gordon Brown and Eddie George, according to evidence from the latter to the Treasury Select Committee in hearings just before the credit crunch started
People often demand wide ranging enquiries when they think they will confirm their biases. And they continue to demand enquiries despite previous ones not confirming their biases. Let's guess what outcome Reform thinks a grooming enquiry will produce and why previous ones haven't.
Help to buy. Putting taxpayers' money into landowners' pockets.
You cannot beat supply & demand. The only good solution is Henry George's one, replacing taxes on productivity by a land value tax.