Success Stories Using Georgist Tax Principles
Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
Hi, this is Lars Doucet, author of the book review of Henry George’s Progress and Poverty that won the first ACX book review contest, as well as the three-part follow-up guest post series, “Does Georgism Work?” A lot has happened since then, including land value tax...
Killer Arguments Against Land Value Taxation … Not
By Mark Wadsworth (Posthumous) and Scott Baker (Editor) The late Mark Wadsworth from the U.K. quietly amassed what is perhaps the best compendium or index of arguments against LVT on the internet...and then wrote articles to refute all of them. The main categories are...
What happened when Pennsylvania taxed land?
Over the past century, various forms of land value tax (LVT) have been implemented in 20municipalities across Pennsylvania (PA). Beginning in 1913 with the gradual exemption ofbuilding values from taxation in Pittsburgh and Scranton, it took until the 1980s and...
Lessons learned about gaining support for LVT
Past experiences of LVT losing acceptance in some cities can be instructive. I’ve gathered a list of historic instances when implementation of this reform was cut short, accompanied by reasons for withdrawal. The list goes back several years, but the...
ValueBase, backed by Sam Altman’s Hydrazine, raises $1.6 million seed round
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes AI can help usher in “unbelievable abundance,” but he says he wants to ensure that such abundance is shared. Toward that end, Altman has embraced a theory of 19th century political economist Henry George, who in his own lifetime worried...
New Life in Old Cities
Georgist1 Policies and Population Growth in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago,
Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Other Cities, 1890-1930
Mason Gaffney, emended 10-22-062
In the period 1890 to 1930, the Georgist movement inspired a large number of civic leaders—mayors, assessors, governors, congressmen and others—to implement Georgist policies in a number of US and Canadian cities. That is, in order to encourage development, they reduced or eliminated assessments on buildings and increased assessments on land. They used land
revenues to provide low-cost, high-quality public services. Where implemented, these policies resulted in rapid population growth.