Welcome to the January issue of The Georgist News. Happy Holidays to all! Welcome to new subscribers Franklin Cudjoe, Executive Director, Imani Center for Policy + Education in Ghana, Marion Sapiro, Southern California stalwart, and Chris Tolworthy. Have you, dear reader, friends or coworkers who'd also like to subscribe? Read below about a Mauritania official's interest, a Ugandan entrepreneur's support, the UN's financial support, good coverage in Australia's main daily, yet another real estate loophole, and how farmland is going the way of housing, and more information on ways to get involved. Enjoy the read. ==================================================================== CONTENTS: 1. Good Press: Monitor of Uganda, Big Earth Book, AScribe, Times-Union, and Calgary Herald. 2. News: Times Sq rent rockets up; Real estate investors evade taxes 3. Numbers: Farmland in Indiana hit record; Non-farmers bid up rents; Home sales slowest in twelve years; Inflation fastest in two cycles 4. Movement Progress: Mauritania looks at rent-recovery; UN funds geoist project; Aussies in major paper, on radio; Pennsylvania website posts geoist articles. 5. Letters: Call for youths; Elder in hospice 6. Likable links: UCLA's Dr Shoup, Nicaraguan update, School of Cooperative Individualism, Progress Report 7. What You Can Do: Attend CGO conference; Get booklet on solving cycles 8. At the Margin: Quips and Quotes 9. Publication affairs: Contributors, About the Georgist News ==================================================================== 1a. Good Press: The Monitor (Kampala), November 29, 2007 "Uganda: It Might Be Time to Think About Land Tax" By Obed Tindyebwa, Associate Consultant at Q-Sourcing Limited. In Uganda, with about 80% of the population engaged in agriculture, many people directly derive their livelihoods from land. With increasing population and land scarcity, land problems will no doubt continue. The value of land in Uganda has greatly increased today and many people are struggling to hold it for different reasons including speculation. Land problems in Uganda are prevalent in urban centres where thousands of people are living in slums with no secure tenure, and in rural areas. There is need for appropriate amendments to the current land law and the regulatory framework to improve utilisation of land, such as improved land allocation mechanisms and a taxation system. Regarding land taxation, one idea is tax based on land value. A vacant piece of land next to a farm would be assessed at the same value as the land occupied by the farm. Therefore non-use of land would be penalised, which would partly solve the absentee landlord issue. As a natural source of revenue, it would allow reductions in existing taxes. However, the disadvantages of the tax are that; it concentrates on land holding as an indicator of ability to pay and it ignores the actual earned cash and it is a fixed periodic charge based on qualities inherent in the land without much reference to the land holder's liquidity and other factors like aging. The tax seems to adopt a 'use it or sell it' approach which appears too harsh. ==================================================================== 1b. Good Press: Big Earth book cites taxing land values By Peter Bowman, HGF London, drbowman at btinternet.com December 13, 2007 "The Big Earth Book, ideas and solutions for a planet in crisis" by James Bruges, published by Alastair Sawday's, an updated version of "The Little earth Book", is an excellent compendium on environmental, economic, human, and geo-political issues and includes Land Value Taxation amongst the solutions it offers. ==================================================================== 1c. Good Press: AScribe, which distributes news from nonprofit and public sector organizations, December 17 "Dire Future for Local Governments If Revenue-Raising Powers Are Not Fixed" Via Josh Vincent The press release quotes David Brunori, a contributing editor for State Tax Notes magazine and a professor at George Washington University: "Policymakers and political leaders should consider taxing the value of land at a higher rate than the buildings and other improvements on the land." ==================================================================== 1d. Good Press: Albany (NY) Times-Union prints Batt letter By Joshua Vincent, Executive Director, Henry George Foundation USA/Center for the Study of Economics, www.urbantools.org, joshua at urbantools.org, December 3, 2007 CSE's Bill Batt just wrote an impressive letter to the editor to the Albany (NY) Times-Union. It's a great letter in several ways: 1. It's short, but packed with information and suggestions. 2. It addresses an issue that the city and its citizens already know is a "hot burner" (vacant and abandoned buildings). 3. It gives not just a theoretical solution, but the practical application (Harrisburg). Here's the link: www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=643502 Thank you, Bill. ==================================================================== 1d. Good Press: Make the oil-based Heritage Fund pay dividends By Allan Warrack, The Calgary Herald, October 12, 2007 This article was prepared for the Canada West Foundation's Investing Wisely project. Here's a new idea: initiate a public policy of dividend payments to individual Albertans. It works in Alaska. The concept of a social dividend policy in the history of Alberta is not new. It was a hallmark stance of the Social Credit prairie political populism of the difficult 1930s. Social credit dividends were to be paid at $25/month. Although the promised social dividend was paid but twice, it was a popular idea. Some right-leaning citizens viewed the government cash payments favorably because it meant there would be less for the government to waste. Some left-leaning citizens favored the payments on grounds of social equity -- equal payment amounts meant the needy would get the same amount as the rich, though the value to the needy would be much higher. Alanna Hartzok, Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute (Dec 18, 2007): "Canada West Foundation in "Why pay dividends from common assets?" mentioned my article on the APF; it was included in their 2005 edition of Dialogues on page 28. Gary Flo, University of Vermont (Dec 18, 2007): "I couldn't agree more; there has to be a 'giving' to compensate the 'taking'." ==================================================================== 2a. News: American Eagle Nests In Times Square By Peter Slatin, editor of the Forbes/Slatin Real Estate Report, December 5 2007 Millions of folks pass through Manhattan's Crossroads of the World each year. Sutton/SLG has leased a Times Square block front to American Eagle Outfitters, the clothing giant that today has 852 stores in the U.S. and 74 in Canada. The total rent package for the now-vacant lot at 1551 Broadway is well over $200 million and could approach $250 million; the ground rent for the space will be about $900 a foot. Sutton/SLG bought the site at the northwest corner of the bow tie at 46th Street and Broadway in 2005 for $85 million. The AEO tenant will make a tremendous amount of money selling, but the cost is also justified from an advertising perspective -- control over the huge signage atop the selling floors. ==================================================================== 2b. News: Ex-I.R.S. Agent Says Tax Evasion by Real Estate Partners Is Huge By David Cay Johnston, New York Times, December 7, 2007 Via Wyn Achenbaum, wyn at achenbaum.com Nationally in 2005, at least $20 billion of gain from real estate tax shelters was unreported. In New York State, the epicenter of the business, the figure may be as high as $5 billion. The states, especially New York, lose vast sums. Just one form of real estate partner income, known as a 1231 gain after a section of the tax code, totaled $181.3 billion in 2005, up 87% over 2004. The actual gain was at least $232 billion and probably much more. In 2006, there were nearly 1.3 million real estate partnerships, with more than 6 million partners. More than 80% of reported partnership income goes to taxpayers making more than $200,000 annually. Detecting this type of cheating is easy. While Congress requires that employers, banks and other institutions verify the wages and major deductions reported by most taxpayers, it trusts real estate partners to report their income fully without independent verification, except for audits. Last year, the I.R.S. thoroughly audited just one in 356 partnerships. The people likely to be caught cheating were also likely to be campaign contributors. ==================================================================== 3a. Numbers: Indiana farm rent reaches record high By Pam Tharp, Palladium (Richmond, IN) Correspondent, December 5, 2007 Proving Ricardo yet again, farmers assume that (grain) prices will stay strong or go even higher. Rent for farmland in Indiana had climbed 9% to 10% from 2006 June. Cash rents were $171 per acre for top quality land, $139 per acre for average land and $110 per acre for poor quality land. But crop input costs are also significantly higher. Plant food costs are 50% more for the 2008 crop. At a county commissioners meeting, the winning bid out of four farmers for almost 103 acres in Harrison Township will be a record $220 an acre for 2008 and 2009 owed to Union County, a 30% increase over the previous two-year lease of $170 an acre to rent farmland in 2006 and 2007 and more than twice the amount he paid in 1992, $100 an acre. Purdue Extension farm owned by Shelby County recently brought $230 an acre. ==================================================================== 3b. Numbers: Farmland is now the hot real estate deal By Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio, December 3, 2007 Via Wyn Achenbaum, wyn at achenbaum.com Record prices for wheat and corn and soybeans are putting a lot of money in farmers pockets. When farmers have money, they want to buy land. Plus now, more wealthy investors put their bets on farmland. In Moorhead, Minnesota, bidding for Red River Valley farmland reached $2,500 an acre. The "winner" paid $5,000 an acre for land near Austin, Minnesota. He expects only about a five percent annual return on his land investment, but the land value is rising by up to 20% a year. Farmland values increased 14% nationwide in the past year. Farmland prices exploded in the 1970s driven in part by speculative investors. Those high land prices played a role in the farm crisis of the 1980s. ==================================================================== 3c. Numbers: Wholesale prices largest jump in 34 years By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer, December 13 2007 Record spike in energy prices lifts Producer Price Index 3.2% in November, up from a 0.1% rise in October. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had forecast a 1.5% increase. It was the biggest jump in that price measure since 1973 August. The key driver in November -- a record 14.1% rise in energy prices. The previous record one-month jump in energy prices was in 1990 January, on the eve of the first Gulf War. Gasoline prices were up 15.1% in November, but that is a very volatile number. Gas prices were up 17.4% in February and down 14.8% in August, for example. ==================================================================== 3d. Numbers: Consumer inflation fastest in two years By Greg Robb, senior reporter, MarketWatch, December 14, 2007 The numbers were worse than surveyed economists expected. Consumer prices inflated 0.8% in November, led by higher prices for gasoline, the fastest pace in more than two years. Prices of drugs, housing, and airline fares also spiked. Apparel prices rose 0.8%, their biggest gain since 1999 April. The weaker dollar was also playing a role in boosting inflation. The overall CPI is up 4.3% in the past year, the fastest pace since 2006 June. That rate doubles prices in about a decade. Wages, adjusted for inflation, have fallen for two straight months. ==================================================================== 3e. Numbers: Sales of new homes plunge deepest in 18 years By Jeannine Aversa, The Associated Press, December 28, 2007 Sales of new homes plunged last month to their lowest level in more than 12 years. The sales pace for November was much weaker than economists were expecting. At the current rate, there's over a nine-month supply of houses waiting to be sold. Over the last 12 months, new-home sales nationwide have tumbled by 34.4%, the biggest annual slide since early 1991. The median sales price of a new home dipped to $239,100 in November. That is 0.4% lower than a year ago. The median price is where half sell for more and half for less. ==================================================================== 4a. Movement Progress: Mauritania considers rent recovery for transit By Todd Alexander Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org), litman at vtpi.org, "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" Passed on to LandCafe discussion list by founder Eric Britton, December 07, 2007 In reply to Jonathan Richmond, Transport Adviser to the Government of Mauritius, Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Land Transport and Shipping, richmond at alum.mit.edu, http://the-tech.mit.edu/~richmond/ The following report summarizes the literature on value capture, including discussion of implementation mechanisms. Although it mainly deals with capturing the value of transit projects, there are some references to the impacts that highway proximity has on property values. "Financing Transit Systems Through Value Capture: An Annotated Bibliography" (http://www.vtpi.org/smith.pdf). ==================================================================== 4b. Movement Progress: UN funding course on reforming land issues By Alanna Hartzok, Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute, Alanna at earthrights.net, December 7, 2007 The United Nations Habitat agency's newly launched Global Land Tool Network has allotted $16,000 USD for the computer experts associated with their Capacity Building section to do the design work for the "Land Rights and Land Value Capture" web-based course now under development by Alanna Hartzok and members of her Advisory Group for the project. Once the course is on the web Georgist organizations will be able to form "universities" to promote and conduct the course. Upon completion students of the course will receive an official certificate from United Nations Habitat. Hartzok says the course will have interactive and student research features and serve as a basis for movement building for implementation. Hartzok was in Nairobi, Kenya for two weeks in October where she met with Huairou Commission grassroots women leaders from around the world who are working on land rights issues. While in Nairobi she also met with Georgist colleague Tatiana Roshkoshnaya, who is on the staff at UN Habitat, had several meetings with GLTN and Capacity Building program directors to discuss the land value capture program, and discussions with the project manager for the Green Belt Movement launched by Nobel prize winner Wangari Mathai. UN Habitat is the only UN agency with headquarters in the developing world. ==================================================================== 4c. Movement Progress: Aussies Earthsharing on radio and in major press By Karl Fitzgerald, Projects Coordinator, Earthsharing Australia, http://www.earthsharing.org.au, swymap at onthe.net.au, December 2, 2007 Renegade Economists radio show - Hosts Alice Bleby + Karl Fitzgerald - deliver a weekly georgist radio that can be streamed on www.3cr.org.au from 5.30 - 6pm Wednesdays, Melbourne time. With the Labor government sweeping to power, will the 3 to 1 growth in land prices to wages see the Rudd government focus on rental capture over union wage demands? The Rengades will keep them honest! In a few months we will be podcasting, so that will better suit the time zones of our northern friends. "I Want to Live Here" report - written up on p3 of The Age and soon to be published in a number of other journals. The report analysed land usage in an inner city Ward, finding 1058 people could live in vacant land and buildings. This is particularly alarming because we are constantly told that vacancies are at a record low of 1.2 - 1.4%. The report found that such vacancy statistics ignore "speculative vacancies" withheld from the market to manufacture capital gains. A Site Rental on all land would soon see speculative vacancies included on the market, quelling the 30% p.a growth in land prices. Make sure you check the google earth photos. Contact k2@earthsharing.org.au to receive an 'Economic Detectives kit' so you can undertake the study in your region. ==================================================================== 4d. Movement Progress: Economists for Peace + Security post neo-Ricardo By Alanna Hartzok, Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute, Alanna at earthrights.net, December 7, 2007 The Law of Rent and the Economics of War and Peace, a four-part 50 page paper with diagrams, presented in summary form by Alanna Hartzok at the 2007 Eastern Economics Association conference on the Economists for Peace and Security panel, is now on the EPS website at: http://www.epsusa.org/events/eea2007papers/hartzokintro.html PS: A year ago I met up with Rep. Dennis Kucinich in his office for a bit while his wife Elizabeth was there. He went off to the floor of Congress, so Elizabeth and I hung out for two hours talking. We are still in frequent email communication. ==================================================================== 4e. Movement Progress: Pennsylvania Action Network posts our POV By Alanna Hartzok, Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute, Alanna at earthrights.net, December 1, 2007 Fourteen articles from our geo perspective now posted on PA Action Network website http://www.paactionnetwork.org/resources/?category=29+topic=30 under Land Rights and Green Taxes. ==================================================================== 4f. Movement Progress: Green business people applaud geonomics By Jeffery J. Smith, jjs at geonomics.org, December 11, 2007 The Portland (OR) Eco Business Network at their Holiday Social December 10 heard invited speaker Jeffrey Smith on Geonomics. I focused on business cycles and the current land-price collapse then concluded with the reform of shifting taxes and subsidies. It's a recipe for a presentation that may work for other geoist activists, too. Attending this event, which was lots of fun, were up to 50 business people; it was a full house, SRO. A good half dozen attended in response to my invitation. Everybody seemed to appreciate the talk that was supposed to be like ten minutes with ten minutes of Q+A but interest kept it going an hour. People laughed at the jokes, asked good questions, approached me afterwards for more info, etc. If anyone would have any use for a copy of the talk, I'd be happy to send anyone a copy. Bill Batt thought it well done and kindly sent it around. About it Ben Howells wrote: "3,750 words! That was the best I've ever seen, and, coincidentally, no George attributions! Does that make him "one of them" and not one of us?" ==================================================================== 5a. Letters: Launching young geoist Turks leage By Karl Fitzgerald, Projects Coordinator, Earthsharing Australia, http://www.earthsharing.org.au swymap at onthe.net.au December 2, 2007 Do u have Adam Monroe's email? I am trying to set up an e group for young Georgists (under 40) who might be interested in working on productive, investigative reports. With georgist politics worldwide putting young people off, it is important young people only interested in producing effective material have an opportunity to work together. With skype + project management tools like grouphub.com we can work together over long distances. If you can forward or cc me to any such young people I would much appreciate it. The Global PR watch group previously attempted on your Geo News was a similar attempt to get strategic thinkers together. ==================================================================== 5a. Letters: Sad Tidings By John Watkins, johnw at humanemp.org, December 24, 2007 I'm sorry to say that I'm going into hospice today and you may never hear from me again. Please tell anyone else you know just in case they don't get this message. All my love and thanks for your support. My daughter, Susan Grabski, will be acting as a transitional contact. Please feel free to contact her at uygrabski at yahoo.com. Editor's Note: Thanks for the note and sorry about the news. May it go as well as possible. From here, it looks like a life well lived. Thanks for all your good and important work. Once you get where you're going, save me a seat by the window; I'll probably need all the insider influence I can get. ==================================================================== 6a. Likable link: UCLA prof cites Henry George By Joe Johnston, joecyclist at gmail.com, December 8, 2007 Related to cost of cars is the cost of parking. A few months ago Donald Shoup, author of "The Hidden Costs of Free Parking", came to Raleigh NC to deliver a lecture. The lecture is now on line at: http://raleigh.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=35 There are introductions up to minute 7. In his book, Shoup has a chapter on "the Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue", which has several pages on Henry George. ==================================================================== 6b. Likable link: IHG Nicaragua NEWS, December 2007 By Paul Martin, nssmga at ibw.com.ni, Director, Instituto Henry George, Managua, NICARAGUA, http://www5.ibw.com.ni/~ihg, December 26, 2007 Below are the headlines of recently uploaded news stories on the IHG Managua website at http://www5.ibw.com.ni/~ihg. Enter and click on the "NEWS and Photos" link to get to the "IHG News as of December 2007" page and the following stories which include informative news, updated statistics of our popular "Comprender la Economia" course, and some interesting accompanying photos: * 37th CE Economics Course Survivors Graduate * Construction of IHG Building Progresses * IHG Expects Increased Activity in 2008 * Nicaraguan Economy Sinks as Inflation Grows We hope you enjoy your visit to our website! ==================================================================== 6c. Likable link: School of Cooperative Individualism update By Ed Dodson, ejdodson at comcast.net, December 22, 2007 The year has been one of steady use of the website at about 15,000 visitors each month. Some stay for many minutes, others for just a few seconds. Since my last email newsletter, a considerable amount of additional material has been added to the SCI library. E.g., transcript from a conference on Human Rights and American Foreign Policy held late in 1983 at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. This dialogue, initiated with a keynote address by Arthur Goldberg, is, perhaps, more relevant today than it was then: www.cooperativeindividualism.org/goldberg-arthur_human-rights.html . By gaining access to the online archives of the New York Times, I have been able to add more biographical information on the individuals active in the Single Tax movement during Henry George's life and in the first two decades of the 20th century. This story is far from complete, and I am always appreciative of any new information others can provide. Another find is an address by Joseph Fels in 1910 to the Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia, "Franklin and Freedom". www.cooperativeindividualism.org/fels-joseph_on-benjamin-franklin.html We all need to commit ourselves to continue working for solutions in 2008. ==================================================================== 6d. Likable link: The Progress Report daily news e-zine By Jeffery J. Smith, jjs at geonomics.org, December 21, 2007 The daily Georgist news source offers much more information than can be squeezed into this monthly newsletter, news from around the world on issues related to getting and sharing -- or not -- the rent for land and resources. Some recent titles include: * Wall Street insider, Paul Farrell, exposes Bush's lending rate freeze for mortgage defaulters as actually benefiting wealthy speculators. 13 reasons Bush's bailout won't stop the recession * Robert Wexler may our boldest Congressman; tax resisters want taxpayers to be bold, too. Rep. Wexler urges impeaching Cheney, peaceniks urge boycotting taxes * Africans ask, why's the land so rich yet we're so poor? It's because others have more capital -- both fiscal and physical -- explains Philip Emeagwali. Technology Widens Rich-Poor Gap Readers seem to appreciate the read. Here's Franklin Cudjoe (Executive Director), Imani Center for Policy + Education, www.imanighana.com: "Very many thanks for bringing Nigerian Philip Emeagwali and I together. If we all did even as little as you have demonstrably done, we should turn the fortunes of Africa around. Please, Philip, do let me know if you would like to share your interesting pieces with us at www.africanLiberty.org. Could we put up the one up currently on Progress.org?" Visit your daily source of Georgist-relevant news. And it's normal-reader-friendly. So send your friends there for a good read, too. ==================================================================== 7a. What You Can Do: Pay Dues + Register for summer CGO Conference By Sue Walton, sns at swwalton.com, December 19, 2007 The Council of Georgist Organizations is pleased to announce that best-selling author, Donald W. Walton, has agreed to be our Saturday Lunch Speaker. Don's the author of: A Rockwell Portrait (one of the first biographies of his friend Norman Rockwell-1978), Are You Communicating (about effective marketing published in 1989 by McGraw Hill and which was translated into several different languages including Chinese and Japanese) and Our Weird Wonderful Ancestors (which is about our founding fathers (and even their role as land speculators) 1998. At age 90, Don's still an active writer and communicator. His fee will be partially in poppy seed cake which is his favorite cake. He also has more hair than his 60-year old Georgist son. For more information about the 2008 CGO conference, please contact Sue or Scott Walton at sns at swwalton.com or at 847/475-0391. Dues Reminder -- Dear Members and Affiliates of the CGO: With all the hussle and bussle of the December holidays, things can get misplaced, so please be sure to pay your Council Dues before December 31, 2007. The Council of Georgist Organizations' Executive Committee consists of: Ted Gwartney, President; Ed Dodson, Vice President; Pia DeSilva, Secretary; Toni Gwartney, Treasurer; Dan Sullivan + Lindy Davies, Advisors; Sue + Scott Walton, Administrators. ==================================================================== 7b. What You Can Do: Great new booklet on solving cycles By Frank de Jong, GPO Leader, www.gpo.ca, December 24, 2007 Last summer I met Australian Bryan Kavanaugh. He's author of an excellent booklet on cycle issues, "Unlocking the Riches of Oz": below is an excerpt: "Boom-bust cycles are more correctly described as bubble-burst cycles. Prices become decoupled from earnings in a bubble and are supported only by the assumption that someone else, the 'greater fool', will pay an even higher price at a later stage. When that assumption loses credibility, that is, when the market runs out of greater fools, there is no support for today's prices and the bubble bursts. The public capture of half the rental value of land would release both land and money for more productive projects by discouraging the holding of land for speculative purposes. It would also permit reduction of taxes that feed into prices, and therefore reduce inflationary tendencies, allowing more accommodating monetary policy, reducing the internal rate of return needed for a viable investment, and therefore increasing the available range of investments. The need to find productive uses for land, or else sell it, would increase the supply of commercial and residential accommodation, strengthening the bargaining position of renters and buyers relative to sellers -- thereby making accommodation more affordable." -- Bryan Kavanaugh, The Land Values Research Group, 2007, is available for $10 plus postage from http://www.earthsharing.org.au/books . ==================================================================== 8. At the Margin: Quips and Quotes (not too long after winter solstice) A will is a dead giveaway. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, "What the heck happened?" -- the wisdom of Larry the Cable Guy Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. -- Benjamin Franklin ==================================================================== 9a. Publication affairs: Contributing to this issue Wyn Achenbaum, Peter Bowman, Eric Brittan, Ed Dodson, Karl Fitzgerald, Gary Flo, Joe Johnston, Frank de Jong, Alanna Hartzok, Paul Martin, Josh Vincent, Sue Walton, John Watkins. Editor: Jeffery J. Smith Assistant Editor: Caspar Davis Copy Editor: Enzo Piccone Archivist: Stewart Goldwater Owner: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Founder: Adam Monroe Send your news and other interesting material to the Georgist News at jjs at geonomics.org or gn at progress.org. The deadline for the next issue is January 25. ==================================================================== 9b. Publication affairs: About The Georgist News The Georgist News, a project of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, is an email newsletter brought to you free of charge. Its purpose is to keep you updated on the latest news, citations, events, and initiatives of relevance to people who, like Henry George, seek a world free from special privilege and the causes of poverty. Do you know someone who'd enjoy reading the GN? Please forward them an issue and ask them to subscribe, or send us their eddress. As always, it's free. Thanks. The Georgist News is also available online at http://www.georgist.com/ ==================================================================
The Georgist News, Volume Ten, Number Seven, January 1, 2008