There are so many smart people out there, then....
Why do people vote against their own self-interest?
With a <1% vacancy rate, little credit to either potential builder or
potential home-buyer, the NYC rents are getting as high as the high-rises
in Manhattan. They now AVERAGE over $3,400/month ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/realestate/manhattan-the-city-of-sky-high-rent.html?hp ), even with people
using living rooms as a second bedroom! Recently, during an Earth Day
outreach effort, someone said to me and the other Common ground-NYC volunteers: "Good! There should be
vacant land in the city!" He rushed off before I could call him a
greedy speculator, but....is it wrong to say that attitude is what's
destroying the country and that it is unsustainable?
Meanwhile, North Dakota nearly undercut all the great things its State Bank is doing for it by voting to ban all property taxes! But, in the end, a coalition of smart business owners and residents defeated this short-sighted and suspiciously supported bill:
North Dakota Voters Reject Effort to Abolish Property Tax
Why do people vote against their own self-interest?
Meanwhile, North Dakota nearly undercut all the great things its State Bank is doing for it by voting to ban all property taxes! But, in the end, a coalition of smart business owners and residents defeated this short-sighted and suspiciously supported bill:
North Dakota Voters Reject Effort to Abolish Property Tax
That's one small tax for a man, one giant leap for taxpayers everywhere. Perhaps learning from the self-imposed disaster of Proposition 13 in California, which benefited the oil&gas industry much more than the Howard Jarvis' of the State, voters decided to keep the most reliable, fairest, and best tax of them all. Now, if they got rid of the tax on buildings and taxed just the land (of which there is plenty in North Dakota, America's second least populated state), we'd really have true reform.
End the monopoly on Land and on Money and we will be living in a very different world. Maybe one that truly would be Paradise.
End the monopoly on Land and on Money and we will be living in a very different world. Maybe one that truly would be Paradise.
Scott Baker - Op Ed News Blogger/Senior Editor; Huffington Post Blogger; Author; President: Common Ground - NYC ; NY State Coordinator: Public Banking Institute
Petitions:
-- Set up a Land Value Tax & untax ALL productive activities to make California Healthy, Wealthy, and Prosperous
-- Replace Property Tax with Ground Rent in New York State
-- Set up a State Bank For Florida
-- California Dreaming: Set up a State Bank with abundant CAFR funds
-- Complete the East Side Manhattan Greenway from 38-61 Streets and save bikers, help the environment, and clear up traffic
-- Tax Vacant & Unused Land to Return its value to the Community
-- Untax Production and Wages while taxing the use/abuse of natural resources. Polluters pay while workers and entrepreneurs profit from true production
-- Close New York State's budget Gap with money from its own agencies by setting up a State Bank
-- Defend the Clean Air Act
- - Produce debt-free United States Notes
-- Reclassify the FED's account, from private to public
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