Member of California Assembly introduces LVT study legislation

Feb 3, 2023 | Articles, Groundswell

We are excited to announce that Assemblymember Alex Lee (D-San José) has recently introduced legislation to study the potential shift from antiquated property tax to land value taxation in California. Land value taxation is a system where taxes are levied based...

My Interview with Henry George (sort of)

Jan 26, 2023 | Articles, Groundswell

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has taken dramatic leaps recently, far eclipsing Alan Turing’s test of whether a person can tell if they are speaking to a real person or a computer.  Most teachers can’t tell a student’s paper from one generated by the new, and...

Detroit effort to shift taxation onto land value highlights a national movement

Jan 9, 2023 | Articles

Detroit has been branded as a lost city. Once an urban jewel of the Great Lakes region, the city’s reign as the Motor Capital has gone the way of MoTown Records, a relic of the past. But that might not remain the case for long. To turn the tide and remake Detroit, the...

Our Warm Future

Dec 20, 2022 | Articles

Georgism is named for Henry George who was a newspaper editor in San Francisco in the 1870s and wondered how can California be so rich and yet have so many poor people? Why is wealth being concentrated in so few? George came to realize that land owners had a monopoly:...

Save the World with Nuclear Power, LVT and UBI

Dec 20, 2022 | Articles, Groundswell

JAMES HANSEN MEETS HENRY GEORGE Like many others, I feel that some sort of economic and/or ecological collapse is coming. What will it be like?  What would we have to do to avoid it it?  I’ve tried to imagine ways we might avoid or at least, mitigate it....

Let’s advance Georgism with these 3 action tasks

Dec 20, 2022 | Articles

How can the ideas of Georgism — specifically the beneficial application of Land Value Tax — be promoted successfully? In my previous essay “13 strategies to advance Georgism” I listed a “baker’s dozen” ideas obtained primarily from reddit/r/georgism advisors. All the...