Independence Day, with fireworks, parades, and picnics -- not to
mention movement progress. Robert Reich cites our common natural
heritage, David Cay Johnston writes us directly, Philly's mayor
appoints a supporter, our own sponsor explains the origin of their
film shown in Cannes, and activists pick up geo-jargon. Read about it
all and more while enjoying your independence.
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CONTENTS:
* CGO 2008 conference
1. News: Toronto takes rent; Latest stories at the movement's daily site.
2. Movement Progress: Ohioans on property tax; Canadians on green shift;
Philly mayor appoints former HGS student
3. Good Press: Robert Reich; Our jargon gets picked up
4. Numbers: Brokers got more than bankers; Home prices back to 2004
5. Letters: David Cay Johnston; RSF officers; Wetzel to China;
Car-free organizers
6. Obituaries: Meta Heller; Wife of Dr. Foldvary
7. Likable link: Historical cartoons; Alanna Hartzok's new book
8. What You Can Do: Attend CGO conference; Subscribe to newsletters
9. At the Margin: Quips and Quotes
10. Publication affairs: Contributors, About the Georgist News
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* CGO 2008 conference to explore what's the matter with taxes - and not
The 2008 CGO annual conference will be in Kansas City Missouri, this
July 9-13. It's also the seat of the American professional appraisers
association. May the twains meet -- and you be there to participate.
For more information, contact Sue or Scott Walton, sns at swwalton.com
or see the conference brochure at www.cgocouncil.org.
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1a. News: Toronto collects economic rent to finance infrastructure
By Frank de Jong, GPO Leader, Schalkenbach Board member
fdejong at sympatico.ca, June 12, 2008
For the first time to my knowledge, Toronto will be collecting
economic rent to pay for infrastructure -- in this case to redevelop a
section of a busy shopping street. It was reported in the Globe and
Mail as follows: "The city will borrow the money up front, to be paid
off gradually by the businesses along the ritzy strip." Significantly,
although the city has refused to pay for the street redevelopment out
of property taxes, the adjacent businesses know the benefits to them
will outweigh the costs, and are therefore willing to pay for it
themselves. These Toronto businesses know that if infrastructure is
warranted and beneficial it will raise the value of their land by more
than the cost of that infrastructure. Like this Toronto street
redevelopment, all towns, cities, provincial and federal governments
should collect the economic rent that migrates to land (and other
finite assets like oil, aggregates, pollution) and use it to finance
the greening of the country.
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1b. News: To keep up to date, see the Progress Report
For all the news relevant to movement progress, please visit the
Progress Report daily. Read it with your morning coffee! Here are some
recent articles full of crucial facts hard to find elsewhere:
* Exxon got what it paid for from the Supreme Court. The losers are
Alaskans and taxpayers -- and our sense of justice. Biggest oil
spill fine reduced to less than a few weeks of profit
* All of a sudden, oil moves way, way up. Whose demand just jumped so
high? Whose supply suddenly dropped so low? Why Oil Prices Are So
High
* Some nations' top leaders get ahead of the parade that's marching
for a people/planet balance. Seven advances on the long road to
eco-librium
Some days the Progress Report is so often viewed and used that the
search feature Ask Henry reaches the maximum number of permissible
uses (several thousand) for the day. Early bird gets the worm -- and
the answers from Henry.
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1c. News: IHG Intl. News Summaries Jan-June 08
By Paul Martin, Instituto Henry George, nssmga at ibw.com.ni
June 11, 2008
We send an MS Word document which contains summaries of news articles
from Jan-June of this year. It is the fruit of six months and many
hours of analysis and editing, full of relevant facts and analysis
regarding the current economic trends, including topics of
Recession/Depression; Energy and Food Crisis; Global Warming and
Alternative Energy; Credit Card crisis; Government Action and
Inaction, etc. The articles offer all kinds of economic news and
analysis useful as examples of the georgist perspective. It can be
useful for your work in disseminating the georgist paradigm.
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2a. Movement Progress: Ohioans on property tax; Canadians on green shift
An item from the Progress Report, a story on our reform being advanced
by politicians.
Stephane Dion, leader of Canada's other major party, bets his future,
while Ohioan leaders try to fix the property tax. The Liberal Party
and a pair of local officials get impressed by sense
http://www.progress.org/2008/shift.htm
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2b. Movement Progress: Philly mayor appoints Georgist student
by Richard L. Biddle, Director, Henry George School of Social Science,
Henry George Birthplace Museum, HGSPhila at gmail.com
Philadelphia's new mayor, Michael Nutter, told me last summer
(one-to-one as I escorted him around Fair Hill Burial Ground) that
Mark Alan Hughes of our Applied Economics class, was the advocate for
and expert on land value taxation in the Nutter campaign. Nutter
appointed Hughes as Director of the Office of Sustainability -- a
mayoral cabinet position -- which is likely to be hugely important as
the price of energy goes up and up and up. Mark, who authored a 2006
report on LVT in PA for cities, is able to integrate that looming new
reality with fundamental reforms (the numerous variations on the
community collection of eland rent in the local economy). The obvious
result of a sharp new demand on urban land is that the city is back in
the saddle again, if we act with intelligence and promote policies
which make home sites, commerce sites, land in general affordable and
accessible. That Mark Alan Hughes is heading this new agency is
exciting!
BTW, The Park Value Report cites the impact of park lands to adjacent
and other nearby parcels' value. This is likely to happen more often
with Mark in office.
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3a. Good Press: Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor
by Gil Herman, gherman14 at yahoo.com, June 13, 2008
Robert Reich, the former Clinton Secretary of Labor, concluded in the
Wall Street Journal in an article entitled
"How About a Cap-and-Trade
Dividend" (June 4, 2008): "Our atmosphere belongs to all of us. It
seems only reasonable that corporations should have to pay to use it.
The citizens of Alaska and Alberta, Canada, get yearly dividends from
the oil companies that take away their natural resources. Why
shouldn't the same principle apply when industries use the biggest
common resource of all?" I don't know if the obvious extension of this
argument is apparent to Mr R.
To read other encouraging endorsements of the geoist reform -- forego
taxes in favor of recovering rents -- please visit the Progress Report
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3b. Good Press: Activists pushing Citizens Dividend
New York Times science reporter Andrew C. Revkin at his blog told how
the NASA scientist who first sounded the alarm on climate change now
argues for a dividend for all citizens from a tax on air pollution
(June 6).
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/...
A New Zealand newspaper, The Dominion Post (June 18), related how the
Green Party -- a key player in passing a new tax on pollution -- was
holding out for an equal dividend to everyone, not just to the poor,
as Reich meant above.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4587636a23917.html
At their website, members of this libertarian outfit argued the merits
of science fiction writer's, Robert Heinlein's, idea of an extra
income for all. They used the geoist phrase, "citizens dividend", and
noted it would be based on the value of a modern variant of land and
resources -- fields of knowledge held exclusively by patents and
copyrights.
http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=4952.0
At the CommonDreams site, at the end of a Dean Baker story on Wall
Street, da black anarchist posted a long reply explaining the virtues
of a dividend from rent, leaving our address and drawing comments from
around the globe.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/23/9839/
Across the pond, busy British blogger Mark Wadsworth, a libertarian
activist, also argues for a Citizens Dividend with his many readers.
He also uses the term "geonomics" and explains the complete revenue
shift of both taxes and subsidies. Not just activists but academics
also correspond with him.
http://anti-citizen-one.blogspot.com/2008/05/geonomics-geonomics-is.html
If you know this editor, you know who coined this phrase and first
insisted upon it as a major component of reform, beginning a quarter
century ago. It takes a while for a cutting-edge idea to spread. But
you can help it go farther faster!
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4. Numbers: Brokers got more than bankers; Home prices back to 2004
While the mainstream media reports the home price decline, you need to
turn to us to put the stats in the proper perspective of the 18-year
land-price cycle. For example, did you catch the following in the
Progress Report?
* Do we feel too good to solve our unraveling economy? Critics rail
but there's little movement toward the exits. A new national
happiness index contradicts widening wealth gap
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5a. Letters: Author of a book of the year writes us repeatedly
by David Cay Johnston, author of a few New York Times and Wall Street
Journal best sellers: Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich
Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill), and
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit
the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else, and Temples of Chance: How
America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. To Win Control of the Casino
Business (1992)
Jun 25, 2008: Thank you for your note. You are quite right -- and I
know you have not read FREE LUNCH, which is in good part about common
wealth as opposed to narrowwealth (especially narrowwealth based on
taking from those with less to give to those with more -- and I name
names.) In Perfectly Legal I also explain (in the paperback's
introduction) the moral basis of tax, which hardly anyone seems to
know. If you are a regular reader of Tax Notes I hope you will help
move the conversation along with letters (brief) to the editor and
alerting others to ideas that you find worth discussing.
Jun 26, 2008: Jeff, I was in Portland March 21 to speak at the
Unitarian church to about 250 people. For Perfectly Legal I made six
Oregon trips and gave more than 20 talks, but to my surprise have not
gotten sponsors to cover the expenses of coming out for Free Lunch,
which opens with an Oregon story and has a lot about Oregon. The other
talks were to colleges like Reed, OU, OSU, Willamette, etc., some
union groups and some private events. So if there are folks who want
me I would be delighted to return. In Free Lunch you will read a great
deal on the moral basis of tax and specifically on commonwealth and,
my invented word of narrowwealth. I describe our current system as
immoral and also as violating basic Biblical tenets that the vast
majority of elected officials profess they believe, but routinely
violate.
Jun 26, 2008: My books are very much about systematic ways things work
and, unlike the fine work of Kevin Phillips, dig into the bowels of
them and their philosophical basis. The point about names is that they
give life to policy by showing how it plays out in ways most people
can grasp.
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5b. Letters: RSF officers defend expensive decisions
by Adele Wick, President, and Cliff Cobb, former Program Director
cliff.cobb at gmail.com, June 27, 2008
In last month's Georgist News, Paul Martin leveled some criticisms at
the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation (RSF). He has done us a service by
raising questions publicly that may be in many of your minds. Rather
than offering a point-by-point response to his assertions, we offer
here some general explanations of what RSF has been doing and why.
1. The Legal Status of RSF. The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation is a
private operating foundation. RSF was established in 1925 with a
bequest from Robert Schalkenbach. The IRS ruled very early that RSF
had been established for the purpose not of education, but rather
of creating propaganda to serve a sectarian cause. If that ruling
had been allowed to stand, RSF would not have been eligible for an
exemption of taxes on the Schalkenbach estate or future bequests.
The RSF board changed the articles of incorporation to clarify the
purely educational purposes of the foundation. RSF then fought the
IRS ruling and won in the US Court of Appeals in 1931. That 1931
ruling may have then influenced the subsequent IRS rulings in 1936
and 1938, whereby the IRS granted to RSF the status of a "private
operating foundation" (POF).
The rules governing private operating foundations were not well
understood by the RSF staff, officers, or auditors until June 2004,
when RSF received a legal opinion about the precise requirements
imposed on POFs. Until then, even the accountants hired by RSF had
not understand the IRS rules pertaining to POFs. As recently as
June 2007, when RSF hired a new auditor, of the twenty-five or more
accounting firms that expressed interest in bidding on the job,
only four or five actually understood the rules dealing with POFs.
If accountants do not understand the rules, it is not surprising
that RSF got bad accounting advice for much of the last half
century (Editor notes: assuming the lone legal opinion to be
correct, all previous ones wrong).
The relevant IRS rules can be found on pages 2 and 3 of IRS
Publication 578, "Tax Information for Private Foundations and
Foundation Managers" at www.unclefed.com/IRS-Forms/2001/p578.pdf.
The net effect of these rules is that RSF can hire individuals to
perform services under contract, as long as RSF manages their
activities and receives some tangible expression of their work.
Now that the rules are clear to the RSF board and staff, RSF
spending is focused on projects the foundation itself generates.
Although the changes RSF has made to comply with (our understanding
of, Editor notes) IRS rules have not made everyone happy, the
differences have not been as radical as some feared. We have worked
hard to ensure that many former grant recipients still receive
funding by offering them contracts as individuals, rather than
grants to organizations. We have also developed a new program aimed
at securing original research by graduate students and young
scholars in various fields, including economics, history,
sociology, and law.
Whereas a grant-making foundation must pay a fine if it fails
annually to spend at least 5% of its assets on program-related
activities, a POF is required to spend only 3.33% of its assets on
those activities. A private operating foundation is essentially an
endowed nonprofit organization that carries out its own programs
rather than providing grants to other nonprofits. When a POF makes
a grant to another organization, that money does not count as a
program-related expense, because control over those funds is
effectively transferred to another entity. Thus, POFs are supposed
to carry out their own programs rather than supporting the programs
of other organizations (with at least 3.33% of its assets, Editor
notes, but the other 96.7%?)
2. The Nature of RSF and its Board. The Robert Schalkenbach
Foundation was established under the provisions of the will of
Robert Schalkenbach "for teaching, expounding and propagating the
ideas of Henry George." Over the past eight decades, board members
have attempted to use that very general language to support one set
of projects over another. Some have argued propagating ideas
involves publishing books; others have claimed that it means
promoting a program targeted at gaining the support of business and
labor; still others have favored support for original research
institute or sponsoring movement activities aimed at gaining
grass-roots support. Throughout its history, RSF has funded work in
all of those areas. When any new type of venture was proposed, at
least one board member would object to it on the grounds that it
was not endorsed in the will. Yet, the will gives very little
direction, providing no guidance about the primary audience to be
addressed by RSF activities or the methods that should be used. As
a result, everyone has read into it what he or she has wished RSF
would become.
The most accurate statement one might make about RSF is that it has
been diverse in its aims and thus largely representative of the
diversity within the Georgist movement. For good or ill, Robert
Schalkenbach required in his will that the board of directors be
comprised of 21 people. With that large a board, there has always
been a range of perspectives on the board, and no one perspective
has dominated for long.
RSF has never been a "communally-owned asset of the Georgist
movement", contrary to what Mr. Martin alleges. That is a concept
without any coherent meaning. If RSF had been an open, unmanaged
commons, its assets would long ago have vanished. Instead, the
assets are entrusted to a legally constituted body that holds the
funds in trust and debates how they are to be best used. The fact
that the foundation's assets have been controlled by a deliberative
body that has represented the diversity of views within the
Georgist movement has perhaps been the best safeguard that the
money will not be spent frivolously or in a completely unbalanced
way. However, there is no guarantee that all Georgists will agree
with the outcome of the board's deliberations or with the board's
conception of the boundaries of Georgist philosophy. On the
contrary, a degree of disagreement is to be expected. We think
that, absent anger and ad hominem remarks, it is also a sign of the
good health of the foundation.
3. The Recent RSF Film, "The End of Poverty?" RSF chose to finance
a film that does not promote an explicitly Georgist message. Some
Georgist concepts are presented, but the name Henry George is not
mentioned, nor is there any discussion of land value taxation. Not
surprisingly, some Georgists will regard this investment as
improper. In any movement, those who hold to a strict
interpretation of the movement's philosophy and aims will always
criticize those who broaden the message to communicate to a larger
audience. That tension is inevitable.
The only additional film-related issue we wish to address at this
stage is the financial one. Some Georgists seem automatically to
have assumed that RSF's investment in the film project has
substantially reduced the funding available for other projects.
Such is not the case. The money for the film is considered an
investment, not an expenditure. If the film succeeds financially,
the investment will be fully recouped, perhaps even generating
capital gains. If the film fails to generate revenues sufficient to
pay back the investment, then the assets of RSF will be diminished.
In the long run, slower growth of the assets of the foundation may
lead to slightly lower levels of spending by RSF on publishing and
other projects, but in the short run, the investment in the movie
has not reduced program spending at all. Thus, the premise that RSF
has been cutting its operating budget to fund the film is entirely
mistaken.
Editor notes: At the risk of biting the hand that feeds... Since the
film is the most expensive new Georgist project of an educational
nature and already remunerative to some, it seems appropriate that
it'd bear greater scrutiny. To this wayward thinker, a major
Georgist foundation's choice to raise awareness of poverty (you
mean, poverty exists?) and not raise awareness of how to solve it
is a bit like the old joke of the drunk who lost his keys in the
dark but looks for them by the lamppost because that's where the
light is (even though his keys are not). Some people do manage to
mention taxing land in the popular media without being hooted off
the stage. Last issue, after Paul Martin's letter, we followed with
a story on an Amy Goodman broadcast that cited (tah-dah) taxing
land as a major reform in, where?, an impoverished country. She did
not shush her guest and her show is still on the air.
4. Changes in RSF Program Spending. Although RSF no longer
functions as a grant-making foundation, we continue to support CGO,
Josh Vincent, Alanna Hartzok, Jeff Smith, Nic Tideman, Joe Mazor,
Fred Harrison, and other Georgists. In 2001, RSF funded Paul
Martin's program in Nicaragua on a start-up basis, explicitly
stating at the time that RSF would fund his work only for three
years. At the end of three years, RSF notified him that it no
longer intended to fund him. Since the motives of individual board
members are not transparent, it is impossible to say precisely why
that decision (or any other decision) was reached. It is possible
to say the RSF board does not intend to be the sole or primary
source of support for anyone working for RSF on contract. That
long-standing policy has caused some consternation among some
individuals who chose to abandon other forms of work and to work
exclusively on Georgist projects. However, RSF has never made a
long-term commitment to finance the work of any individual, and it
is not likely to do so in the future. If RSF did make such
commitments, its discretionary spending on programs would rapidly
decline, and it would be unable to respond to emerging
opportunities. (Editor's note: RSF is committed to staff, building
expenses, etc, which some sizeable foundations do without; as the
RSF staff are so talented, they could draw salaries for actual
propagating, being as secure as now but doing more mission work.)
We are grateful for this opportunity to clarify the legal and
structural identity of the Schalkenbach Foundation and some of the
activities that flow from and support that identity. To the degree
that controversy promotes understanding through better articulation
of these important issues, we are most grateful for it.
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5c. Letters: Rebuilding and Restoration after Sichuan Earthquake
by Dave Wetzel, Transforming Communities
davewetzel42 at googlemail.com, Jun 8, 2008
Jinhua Zhao is a PhD student at MIT but has spent the last couple of
years in London working for the TfL Policy Unit. Together with some of
his colleagues (ChinaPlanningNetwork, CPN), Jinhua organizes a major
conference in China each year. This year, Beijing/Chengdu July 16-17,
I shall be speaking at three sessions: Rebuilding and Restoration
after Sichuan Earthquake; Housing in China; and Transport Funding,
while making a contribution to this roundtable discussion on the
disaster recovery. Some of the Chinese attendees are in the highest
echelons of the Chinese government. So a marvelous opportunity to
influence Government policy in the medium to long term. Can anyone
please help me with items re previous disaster rebuilders having used
LVT to aid recovery (eg San Francisco 1906) and any theoretical work
on LVT and disaster recovery. Please advise Jinhua (jinhua at mit.edu)
and myself if you wish to attend and speak.
BTW, a brochure on Bus Rapid Transit produced in New York dated June,
2007, among a long list of acknowledgements, on page vi says:
"Appreciation is also extended to Dave Wetzel, the Vice-Chair of
Transport for London (TfL) who has contributed greatly to innovative
financing startegies such as the concept of a Land Benefit Levy
(LBL)." Misquoted my "Location Benefit Levy".
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5d. Letters: Help organize car-free cities tour
by Eric Britton, LandCafe, eric.britton at newmobility.org
June 8, 2008 http://www.dialogues.newmobility.org
This year's cycle of New Mobility City Outreach Dialogues is about to
get underway in North America starting on 1 August. Can we get
together so it can play a useful role in your city? Or perhaps other
cities, places and programs where you feel these ideas might be
useful? (The Dialogues will be taken to some first European and South
American cities starting in October.) Please suggest sponsors,
partners, outreach topics, etc. with whom we could work to get this on
line in your city.
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5e. Letters: Mystery manuscript
by Ed Dodson, School of Cooperative Individualism, June 21, 2008
I am hoping someone will know what might be the author of a manuscript
I found in the archives of the Henry George birthplace. It is about
100 typewritten pages with the title Social Dynamics. My guess is that
it was written in 1980. I believe from the text that the author is
Canadian. Perhaps the manuscript was eventually published. I have not
been able to find out anything more about it. Any insight into who the
author is would held to solve this mystery.
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6. Obituaries: Meta Heller, dead at 82
By Nadine Stoner, nadstoner at aol.com, June 20, 2008
After trying five days in a row to reach Meta Heller, Olympia, WA, by
phone, Nadine Stoner phoned the emergency contact number Meta had
given her. Retired tax attorney Terry Wilson told Nadine that Meta
died May 22 from a stroke. He had attended the crowded memorial
service June 13. Meta was Unitarian.
Meta was the very involved chair of the WA/OR chapter. (Jeff Smith is
the very involved Chapter Vice-Chair.) For the past year Meta had been
putting together a Steering Committee for an Initiative to the People
to change the state of Washington's tax structure to a 2-rate property
tax. She had been working for structural tax reform as a lobbyist and
since 2001 was registered for Common Ground-USA.
Meta was very well connected politically and she herself ran for the
State Senate in 1994 and in year 2000 ran for Governor.
Meta was one of three founders of the Thurston County Economics
Roundtable. She for years edited WA State Tax Facts. She had been a
member of the Washington State Georgist Assn. in the 1990s.
Meta Heller received her M.S. degree in Chemistry and Industrial
Engineering and Design from Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. She
had been a writer/editor in scientific areas for firms in Chicago,
Sacramento, and Seattle.
Meta moved to Olympia, WA in 1982 following the death of her husband,
Carl Heller, MD, PhD. Her interest in tax matters initially spring
from discussions with Carl's brother, Walter Heller, PhD, who served
as head of President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers. Meta had
no children. She is survived by a nephew in California near Hollywood.
Her other relatives are in the St. Louis area.
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Editor: We also note the sad passing of the wife of long-time and
prominent academic Georgist, Dr. Fred Foldvary, whose loss grieves us
all.
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7a. Likable link: Historical cartoons
By Richard L. Biddle, Director, Henry George School of Social Science
Henry George Birthplace Museum, HGSPhila at gmail.com
There is a "history" with a slightly jaundiced p.o.v. and a lot of
factual errors.
www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/...
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7b. Likable link: Who gets the Earth?
By Alanna Hartzok, Earth Rights Institute, earthrts at pa.net
June 23, 2008
My major book of my life's work, The Earth Belongs to Everyone, is
nearly finished. It's a collection of articles and essays covering
democracy, earth rights, and the next economy. Here's the weblink:
http://www.ied.info/books/earth-belongs-to-everyone
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8. What You Can Do: Subscribe to email newsletters
By Karl Fitzgerald, news at earthsharing.org.au
June 2, 2008
To keep abreast of progress Down Under in the world's most Georgist
nation, sign up to get their monthly newsletter, Earthsharing
Australia, using the contact above. Thanks.
By Peter Gibb, International Union for Land Value Taxation
petergibb at theIU.org, June 4, 2008
The latest IU Newsletter includes a flyer for our new book The Silver
Bullet, and a flyer announcing the membership launch of our petition
at www.UNpetition.net - get your name down before the campaign goes
public.
You can receive general mailings by email. This saves the IU a
considerable amount of time and money. It means we have more resources
to spend on our public initiatives and outreach work. Or to receive
paper copies, just let the office know.
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9. At the Margin: Quips and Quotes
"The society who gives up liberty for security will wake up one day
with neither!"
- Benjamin Franklin
At a dinner for U.S. winners of the Nobel Prize in 1962, President
John F. Kennedy remarked: "I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered
together at the White House - with the possible exception of when
Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief
in freedom itself.
- Milton Friedman
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10. Publication affairs: Contributing to this issue
Along with those acknowledged above with each blurb,
Editor: Jeffery J. Smith
Assistant Editor: Caspar Davis
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 July 25.
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
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it's free. Thanks.
The Georgist News is also available online at
http://www.Georgist.com/.
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The Georgist News, Volume Eleven, Number One, July 1, 2008