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THE GEORGIST NEWS

Volume Fifteen, Number Five
December 14, 2012

CONTENTS
1. Announcement: CGO Looking for Award Nominees
2. Movement Progress: A Call to Collaborative Action
3. Movement Progress: UK LVT Poll
4. Numbers: Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend
5. Letters: South Africa Tax Law
6. Interview: Fred Harrison on Occupy London Podcast
7. Book Review: The Traumatised Society
8. Likeable Link: LVT in the UK
9. Likeable Link: LVT in Ireland
10. You Can Do: Sustainable Economics Teleseminar
11. Requests: Geonomy Society Appeal for New Computer
12. RSF News: Annual Letter from the President and New Books
13. At the Margin: Quips and Quotes
14. Publication Affairs: About The Georgist News

1. (2012 December) Announcements: CGO Looking for Award Nominees

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Sue Walton writes:

We’re looking for someone to honor! Since the 1999 CGO Conference in Maryland, the Council of Georgist Organizations has given awards for activism, education and advocacy. Below is a list of previous winners.

1999: Gaithersburg, MD—Steve Cord & Walt Rybeck
2000: Des Moines, IA—Nadine & John Stoner, Everett Gross; Claude & Dian Arnold
2001: Pittsburgh—Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
2002: London, ONT—John Fisher
2003: Bridgeport, CT—Ted Gwartney, Harry Pollard, Susan Witt & AIER
2004: Albuquerque, NM—Mason Gaffney; Bob Andelson, HGI
2005: Philadelphia, PA—HGFA; Philadelphia Forward-Brett Mandel,Jonathan Seidel, Lu Cippolloni (Special Lifetime Achievement)
2006: Chicago, IL—Jeff Smith, HGS-Chicago, Jake Himmelstein
2007: Scranton,PA—Mike Curtis (First Advocacy Only Economic Justice Award)
2008: Kansas City, MO—Alanna Hartzok
2009: Cleveland, OH—Dan Sullivan
2010: Albany, NY—Al Katzenberger
2011: Bloomington, MN—Nic Rosen; Jake Himmelstein (Special Lifetime Achievement)
2012: Harrisburg, PA—Gil Herman; Bill Batt (Special Award)

This is an amazing list of people and organizations. The CGO Planning Team would like your advice as to whom to honor in 2013. Feel free to nominate non-Georgists who have advanced the Georgist cause, as well as Georgists who have done outstanding work. Please submit your nominations to Sue & Scott Walton, CGO Administrators, no later than January 15, 2013.

2. (2012 December) Movement Progress: A Call to Collaborative Action

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A Call to Collaborative Action
By Jacob Shwartz-Lucas

In the first ever televised presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy in 1960, Kennedy appeared rested, clean-shaven, tan; he even wore makeup. Nixon looked tired, unshaven, and refused makeup. His gray suit compared poorly on screen with Kennedy’s dark suit. Radio listeners believed that Nixon had more substantial things to say, and clearly won the debate. TV viewers felt Kennedy was the clear winner.

Georgists have more substantial things to say than any of the heterodox politico-economic groups on the Internet. These groups have invested a great deal of time, effort, and money in their sites. Georgists websites however tend to parallel Nixon’s appearance during that first TV debate.

It’s time to dust ourselves off and get to the task of cleaning up our Internet presence.

The immediate question on most people’s minds surrounding election season is jobs and the general state of the economy. The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation has recently created this site to promote the Georgist perspective on the issue of creating jobs — and aims to make this site its test for effective use of online media. Please contact me if you’d like to submit articles for the website. We’ve created a Facebook page for it as well, a social media portal to the website itself. Many have clicked the “like” button, and informed me that the website looks great. They feel proud to share links to it with those they are introducing to LVT.

Some readers might be wondering about the sudden enthusiasm for social media. What’s all the fuss about?

Here’s a fact that will get your attention: as of October 2012, Facebook has a billion users! That’s “billion” with a “b.” Not all of those “users” are active, but the majority are. Still more use other social media tools, such as blogs, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Over half of social media users are under thirty and less set in their political views. Many are actively searching Facebook for an economic system that meets their moral aspirations. It’s a vast and fertile ground for outreach. Alas, our movement’s utilization of such Internet tools lags far behind many other groups who have far less substantial things to say.

By this point, you should be raring to explore this site and to register an account on Facebook, if you haven’t already done so. Go ahead, do it

Start by visiting the LVT Facebook group. This discussion group has 336 members. I haven’t yet accepted the 5 requests from people who have asked to join the group since I started writing this article. These are people making formal requests to join our Georgist conversations. If you’ve spent years trying to engage people with awkward elevator pitches, you know how good it feels when people actually seek out your opinion! That happens daily on the Facebook LVT group.

The LVT group is for discussion. For specific action plans, there is also a Facebook group called “LVT Task Force” which requires users to post immediately actionable items such as emailing public representatives, editing specific Wikipedia pages, design jobs, and obtaining help with technical issues, among other things. It is a collaborative crowdsourcing tool for our movement.

In addition to Facebook, a small group of us have been meeting weekly via Google Hangouts. We’ve developed a weekly agenda, set up plans for creating a non-profit and applying for foundation grants. We are working with designers to create branding tools and constituent parts of websites such as video organizers, carousels, 3D text imagers, and other tools that we can transplant to various Georgist websites. We’re hoping to be the technological Johnny Appleseeds of the Georgist movement.

I believe we must invest more effort in developing our web presence. It’s the best way to pull in new activists, skills, and funds.

The great power of the Internet, and particularly of social media, is illustrated by an economic concept called the “network effect.” A network can create a positive externality in which the more users a network has, the more valuable it is to every single user. I really want to make sure my Georgist colleagues understand this — so they can stop feeling isolated in their lonely work! The network effect demonstrates that if we use social media collaboratively, our individual contributions to the movement’s progress can be orders of magnitude greater than the sum of our individual efforts.

Perhaps this flood of new technology feels overwhelming to you. That is what people like Edward Miller, Daniel Syddall, Martin Adams and I are here for. We are eager to provide you with the latest communications tools, to help you! Alanna Hartzok and I recently did a teleseminar on the basics of using Facebook. Alanna has video recorded this, and will soon make it available for all. We plan to have more seminars on using Google docs, which allows you to collaboratively work together using many generic though nearly identical programs to Word, Power Point, and Excel among others.

Make sure to email me — jacobshwartzlucas@gmail.com — with any questions or concerns. Ah yes, “email” I tend to forget about its importance now that there are all these other important tools. Remember when we were wondering if email did all that much to help us collaborate? This process of revamping our internet image requires trial and error, and the patience on your part to become proficient in all these seemingly newfangled technologies. Learning is what life’s about though, right? Less tech savvy Georgists, you’ve really got to trust us on this one. We need you to fully join us in this space so that you can pass down your invaluable knowledge.

3. (2012 December) Movement Progress: UK LVT Poll

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Georgists worldwide might be interested in the news that a coalition of like-minded groups based in the UK has recently commissioned a poll by IPSOS MORI on attitudes to LVT – and related subjects. It was very much limited by available funds and by the methods used (face-to-face in-home computer-aided time-limited questionnaire) but it was professionally done by people with no axe to grind. Nearly 1000 people in all parts of UK, of all ages and tenures of housing were interviewed.

I have to say that results won’t please all of us – but will form a baseline to work from, especially in terms of public education. What stood out (for MORI as well as us) was that when people know even a little about LVT they are much more likely to support it - and to support it more than other property taxes.

The sponsors of the poll have not yet decided what (if anything) will (ever) be published regarding detailed findings. However it is already public knowledge here that the polling was under way. We managed just to raise the funding for it – but further donations to PLRG via http://www.landvaluescape.org/who.html (scroll down to ‘donate’) are welcome, to pay for follow-up research.

Meanwhile a Bill calling for LVT Research has been published by the UK Parliament and is due to have its Second Reading in the House of Commons on 25th January. The same coalition of Georgist organisations here is supporting this.

Dr Tony Vickers
Hon Sec PLRG
(Professional Land Reform Group)
01635 230046 / 07950 202640
www.plrg.org
tony@landvaluescape.org

 

4. (2012 December) Numbers: Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend

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Alaska: This year’s dividend is the smallest since 2005
By Karl Widerquist

Alaska distributed its yearly Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) on October 4, 2012. The amount was disappointing, only $878—down from last year’s dividend of $1,174 and the smallest dividend since 2005. The 2012 dividend was only the second dividend in the last 20 years to be below $900, and it is well below the all-time highest dividend of $2,069 in 2008 ($3269 including a one-time supplement the state added to the 2008 dividend).

The PFD is a sort of a yearly, variable basic income, given to all U.S. citizens (men, women, and children) who fill out a form showing that they meet the state’s residency requirement for eligibility. This year nearly 650,000 Alaskans received the dividend. It is financed by the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), which is a sovereign wealth fund owned by the state and financed in turn by the accumulated savings from the state’s oil exports. The dividend varies considerably from year-to-year because the amount is calculated from a complex formula averaging the last five years of returns to the fund. The dividend is down this year because of the poor performance of international stock and bond markets over the last five years.

Even this year’s small dividend will come to $4,390 for a family of five, and the dividend makes a big difference in the lives on many Alaskans. The dividend is one reason Alaska is the most economically equal of all 50 states. According to Russ Slaten, “the oldest applicant was 107 years-old, and the youngest was born minutes before the qualification deadline on December 31 of last year.”

According to Jeff Richardson of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Alaskan retailers have seen a smaller-than-usual bump in sales around dividend time this year because of both the smaller changes and in the higher cost of fuel oil. The smaller effect on retail sales might also be partly attributable to the increase in people donating all or part of their PFDs to charities through the state’s Pick-Click-Give program that allows people to direct some or all of their PFD to the charity of their choice in a few steps on the internet. This year, 23,000 Alaskans gave more than $2.2 million through the program, four times as much as they gave in the first year of the program (2009).

The PFD has largely escaped the demonization given to many programs that promote equality, probably because it provides tangible benefits all Alaskans, rich and poor alike. According to Jeanne Devon, “Even those who gripe about it in theory don’t want to actually give up their own Alaskan ‘entitlement.’ It is our oil, after all.”

The yearly fluctuations in the fund do not signal a long-term threat to the PFD. The fund has had a healthy grown trend since its inception, and it continues today. The bigger worry for the future of the Alaska Dividend is gradual decline in the state’s oil revenues. The amount of oil flowing through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is getting dangerously close to the minimum level needed to keep the pipeline system open. Most of the state’s operating budget comes from oil exports, and the state budget is not well prepared for the loss of oil revenue. Gradual decline (or a sudden drop) in oil exports would put enormous pressure on the state budget and might inspire the legislature to divert returns currently used to financed the PFD toward regular government spending.

Editor’s note: Check The Georgist News next month for two of Karl Widerquist’s recently published books on this topic: Exporting the Alaska Model and Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend.

5. (2012 December) Letters: South Africa Tax Law

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Dear Sirs,

Laws must be rational, according to a recent Constitutional Court ruling in South Africa. Whilst this is trite it prompted SACPRIF to object to the income tax and vat Acts as the attached submission. Our recommendations were not accepted but we have now asked the President not to sign the Act into law on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.

Readers are encouraged to send other examples of irrationality, inequity and larceny. These will be used for future submissions to Parliament and will be part of the legal argument which is being prepared for the Constitutional Court challenge.

Peter Meakin
Registered Valuer Member SA Institute of Valuers
Chairman SACPRIF Management Committee

Link: Annexures to August Parliamentary Comments

6. (2012 December) Interview: Fred Harrison on Occupy London Podcast

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Occupy London Podcast: Critical Thought
Clive Menzies recently interviewed Fred Harrison, author of The Traumatised Society, on the deep-seated trauma which renders us incapable of recognising the culture of cheating embedded within the institutions of society. Harrison asserts that only by recognising the destructive nature of the culture of cheating can we make profound societal changes that will lead to a modern renaissance.

http://www.mixcloud.com/criticalthought/criticalthought-fred_harrison_interview_the_traumatised_society121207mp3/

 

To purchase Fred Harrison’s book, click here.

7. (2012 December) Book Review: The Traumatised Society

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Fred Harrison’s The Traumatised Society: How to Outlaw Cheating and Save our Civilisation
Many people are all too aware that there is something badly wrong with our current economic system, but they are less clear about how it got so bad, what an alternative might look like, and how we can make the change. This profound book admirably fills that gap.
By Bernadette Meaden

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17330

 

To purchase Fred Harrison’s book, click here.

9. (2012 December) Likeable Link: LVT in Ireland

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Why site value tax is best option
SVT is the most equitable, efficient and effective property tax option for the Government. Unlike a conventional property tax that taxes the ‘improved’ portion of the property, i.e. the buildings and thus penalises construction, SVT is non-distortionary, creates no economic drag and has minimal adverse effects.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/why-site-value-tax-is-best-option-3312100.html

 

For more on LVT in Ireland, click here.

10. (2012 December) What You Can Do: Sustainable Economics for the 21st Century

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Sustainable Economics for the 21st Century

A Five Part Teleseminar Series Now Available for Replay
Co-Hosts: Alanna Hartzok and Wendell Fitzgerald

“Consciousness in its fulfilled, developed state will bring the ‘dismal science’ of economics to an evolved and higher level — to the status of Enlightened Economics.” ~Ron Robins

Teleseminar keywords: commons trusts, the wealth divide, earth rights, jubilee laws, the end of poverty, earned versus unearned income, cooperatives, sharing the world’s resources, new land ethic, person/planet finance, ethical markets, new economics, PROUT, resource rent and land value taxation, environmental justice, common assets funds, from war to peace, from crisis to transformation.

Session One: Economics and Conscious Evolution

·   Exploring the relationship of economics to physical, mental and spiritual health.
·   What is “political economics”?
·   Land rights and the person/planet relationship.
·   PROUT’s social psychology and evolution of the social cycle.
·   Guest Presenters: Michael Towsey (Australia) and Acharya Santoshananda (India)

 Go to: http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=33395637

Session Two: The Wealth Divide

·   Current realities of poverty and economic inequality, both within the US and worldwide.
·   Focus on Africa, enclosures, the “resource curse.”
·   The corruption of economics.
·   The land problem and the “law of rent.”
·   Cooperatives.
·   Guest Presenters: Acharya Maheshvarananda (Venezuela) and Gordon Abiama (Nigeria)

Go to: http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=32626596

Session Three: Sharing the Commons

·   Separative consciousness and genocide.
·   Unity consciousness and commoning.
·   Land value capture and commons trusts.
·   Jubilee justice public finance policies.
·   Guest Presenters: Kevin Annett (Canada) Lisinka Ulatowska (USA)

Go to: http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=33631509

Session Four: Economics of War and Peace

·   Land and resource wars.
·   Financial domination.
·   From “full spectrum dominance” to “full spectrum sharing.”
·   The money question.
·   Resource rent for public revenue.
·   Geo-confederation.
·   Earth rights democracy.
·   Guest Presenters: S. Brian Willson, Frank Dorrell, Fred Foldvary (all USA)

Go to: http://instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=34431294

Session Five: Sustainable Economics Local to Global

·   Financing the green economy – the Green Transition Scoreboard.
·   Holistic integrated green tax shift – Vermont Commons Assets for Public Finance.
·   The false housing shortage and what to do about it – Real Estate 4 Ransom.
·   The NINJA generation and new economics.
·   From the grand chessboard to the greatest game on earth.
·   Guest Presenters: Hazel Henderson (USA), Gary Flo (USA), Karl Fitzgerald (Australia)

Go to: http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=35689719

Produced by: The Conscious Evolution Teleseminar Group

To register for 2013 teleseminars, contact: alanna@earthrights.net

 

11. (2012 December) Requests: Geonomy Society Appeal for New Computer

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Jeff Smith is soliciting donations on behalf of The Geonomy Society for a much-needed new computer. Below you’ll find his request along with information on how to help:

Georgist advocate in the Pacific Northwest, Jeff Smith, head of The Geonomy Society, had to put down his 8-yr old computer (88 years in chip years), leaving the Georgist movement without a computer in one of the states most receptive to Georgist reform. Donations are urgently needed to replace this ex-hardworking computer. To keep our movement, our proselytizer, and our cyberspace presence alive in this cutting-edge part of the world, please contribute whatever you can. Use the PayPal button at:

http://www.progress.org/geonomy/Donate.html

Or send a check to:
The Geonomy Society
5805 SE 41st Avenue
Portland, OR 97202  USA

If you have any difficulty, please email Jeff at jjs@geonomics.org.

 

12. (2012 December) RSF News: Annual Letter from the President and New Books

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Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

December 12, 2012

Dear Friends of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation,

After the presidential election in the United States, the daily news cycle switched instantly to the looming “fiscal cliff.” The media industry needs an incessant supply of dramatic events to retain audience attention, so the switch was predictable. Notably, the fiscal cliff was rarely mentioned during the election campaign. There now seems to be a general assumption that the matter will be resolved one way or another. Which taxes may be raised and which programs scaled back will come in a histrionic cliffhanger of a deal. For most Americans the normal routine will continue.

Once again those seeking substantial fiscal and economic reforms will have their hopes dashed on the rocks of political expediency and narrow interest-based horse trading. No matter what kind of resolution is eventually crafted to the fiscal cliff, no one assumes that it will somehow magically transform a landscape of extreme inequality, poverty, unemployment and loss of hope.

Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty (1879) at a time of great economic dislocation. Towards the end of his life, in 1897, there was yet another terrible depression, which was historical confirmation that his theory of business cycles, rooted in the sequestering of economic rent by privileged interests in society, was the principal cause of deepening unemployment, poverty and economic turmoil. Our current evils would no doubt dismay, but not surprise, him.

The Foundation continues, in its modest way, to advance the Georgist vision of economic justice. We recently launched a hub website, www.workandwealth.com, to address issues around unemployment, poverty and income inequality. This is an example of our more aggressive foray into social media in the last six months. The use of short videos, blogging, Facebook, Twitter and other social media will enable us to reach broader audiences as well as enhance communication with a younger age demographic. We expect our latest video production, “On Solid Ground”, to be accessible on-line in early 2013, and to promote the message of the new website. Another website has been created that is devoted to Henry George’s newspaper The Standard. This is a long- range project that involves transforming PDF files into corrected and searchable OCR documents. We’d like to do more of these types of projects, but we have considerable resource constraints, so your donation will go far in helping us expand our vital internet and social media presence.

In 2012 the Foundation financially participated in the conferences sponsored by the Council of Georgist Organizations (held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) and by the International Union for Land Value Taxation (held in Buenos Aires, Argentina). As a result, individual and organizational contacts were renewed and new ones were established.

The Foundation continues with its ongoing program of publishing the works of Henry George and also distributing scholarly commentary on his ideas. Our latest example is Two Views of Social Justice: A Catholic/Georgist Dialogue. This volume brings to fruition the conference RSF co-sponsored with CGO and Scranton University in 2007. Published by Wiley-Blackwell for The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, it is an example of what RSF can accomplish in cooperation with other institutions. Please see the attached materials about this and other notable publications.

The Foundation, like many other non-profits, has had to restrict its discretionary expending in this difficult investment environment. We have a dedicated staff in New York City and an active board of volunteer directors from all over North America. We are, however, stretched to the limit with available resources. If you are able, please make a generous contribution to the work of the Foundation. All contributions are tax-deductible.

Sincerely,
Francis K. Peddle
President
Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
90 John Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10038-3202
Tel: 212-683-6424

Address correspondence to the Secretary & Administrative Director:
Mark Sullivan
msullivan@schalkenbach.org

We welcome your on line donation to support the work of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. Please select an amount and follow the link.

For a donation of $1000, you may choose four items from the list below.
For a donation of $500, you may choose three items from the list below.
For a donation of $250, you may choose two items from the list below.
For a donation of $100, you may choose one item from the list below.
Donation of $50
Donation of $25

Two Views of Social Justice
The Other Law of Moses + Study Guide
The Traumatised Society
The Fair Tax

Donations may also be made by sending a check in US funds or
credit card details (Visa or MasterCard) to:
Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
90 John Street, Suite 501
New York, NY  10038

NOTE:
Donations dated & postmarked or electronically transmitted by 12-31-2012
will be credited to 2012 for tax purposes.

Books from RSF 2012

Special Offers

 

Two Views of Social Justice

Two Views of Social Justice

Sixteen scholars have come together in this issue to examine eight social-justice themes from the perspectives of Catholic social thought and the philosophy of Henry George. The themes they address are natural law, human nature, the nature of work, the nineteenth-century papal encyclical Rerum Novarum, causes of war, immigration, development, and neighborhood revitalization. While they sometimes wrangle with each other, their common aspiration is the same as their nineteenth-century predecessors: to find solutions to the human suffering caused by injustice.

Editor: Kenneth R. Lord
Paperback 240 pp
ISBN: 9781118450048
RSF: AB5004
2012 Wiley-Blackwell
Regular Price: $40.00 Sale Price: $20.00

The Other Law of Moses

The Other Law of Moses + Study Guide (Special Combo Offer)

By John L. Kelly

The Other Law of Moses takes the reader on an epic journey, illuminating a plan for universal freedom and prosperity. The ancient Israelites were among the most prosperous people of their time and became the world’s first middle class nation, enjoying freedom and justice.

Using lively narrative and familiar stories from the Jewish and Christian scriptures, The Other Law of Moses traces the genesis, observance and success of the Land Law. By the end of the book, readers will likely conclude that many of today’s economic precepts are flawed and counterproductive. The accompanying Study Guide is a useful tool for anyone who wishes to explore and discuss in greater depth the key points and implications of Kelly’s fascinating book.

The Other Law of Moses
Paperback 256 pp
RSF: N6186
ISBN: 9781469961866
2012
Regular Price: $20 Special Offer $15

 

The Traumatised Society

The Traumatised Society

How to Outlaw Cheating and Save our Civilisation

By Fred Harrison

Fred Harrison was one of the first to forecast the events that ruptured the global economy in 2008 by applying an analysis that exposes the fault lines in the structure of the market economy. His new book extends that same analysis to the future of the West, evaluating fears from distinguished commentators who claim that European civilisation is in danger of being eclipsed. Harrison concludes that the West is at a dangerous tipping point and provides empirical and theoretical evidence to warrant such an alarming conclusion. But he also explains why it is not too late to prevent the looming social catastrophe. He introduces “organic finance”, which prescribes reforms to deliver sustainable growth, more equitable wealth distribution, and respect for other life forms.

Paperback 256 pp
ISBN: 9780856832871
RSF: S3287
2012 Shepheard-Walwyn
Regular Price: $30 Special Offer $17

 

The Fair Tax

The Fair Tax

Supported by History … Agreed by Economists … Feared by the 1%

Edited by Emer Ó Siochrú

The tax regime in Ireland, Colm McCarthy points out in his Preface, has been very favourable to property developers who, together with their banks, took maximum advantage. It fuelled the disastrous property boom with the huge development-site debts and led directly to the Irish state having to shore up the collapsing banks. The Fair Tax shows how a second massive transfer of wealth from the 99% to the 1% can happen again. The authors also clearly explain the real advantages of a site value tax over a conventional property tax and convincingly show how easy it is to assess and implement.

Paperback 170 pp
ISBN: 9780856832901
RSF: S3290
2012 Shepheard-Walwyn
Regular Price: $19 Special Offer $15

 

PDF version of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Presidents Letter 
PDF of the RSF Donation Form 
PDF of the 2012 Special Offers 

13. (2012 December) At the Margins: Quips & Quotes

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“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
~Alfred North Whitehead

“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.”
~Charles Eisenstein

“Some of my most precious moments of insight have been those in which I have seen clearly that gratitude is the only possible response.”
~Sylvia Boorstein

“The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth.”
~Theodore Roosevelt

14. (2012 December) Publication Affairs: About The Georgist News

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