tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328187388919034177.post1854839113849996027..comments2022-03-29T15:25:50.802-07:00Comments on HoltesThoughts: The Target of progressive taxation and LVT is unearned land rents/incomeChris Holtehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01776805168003457665noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328187388919034177.post-3021863333218448272017-09-07T14:16:46.611-07:002017-09-07T14:16:46.611-07:00this is said to be very authentic article about Th...this is said to be very authentic article about The Target of progressive taxation and LVT is unearned land rents/income.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.knightwolffe.com/" rel="nofollow">Pay less tax in the UK</a> | <a href="http://www.knightwolffe.com/reduce-tax-for-dentists/" rel="nofollow">UK Dentists pay less tax</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01664984250375605237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328187388919034177.post-14605232067502992512015-03-19T22:49:15.685-07:002015-03-19T22:49:15.685-07:00The way that scam worked is in his case the Distri...The way that scam worked is in his case the District sold his lien to a private investor who tacked on all sorts of fees and abusive charges to the mortgage before evicting him and selling it at auction that he got nothing. Similar scams involve folks who promise to save you from Bankruptcy and wind up owning your house. I've seen trustees here in Maryland foreclose, buy the property at a discount without an auction, and then resell it.Chris Holtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01776805168003457665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328187388919034177.post-23383997535344368172015-03-19T21:29:23.929-07:002015-03-19T21:29:23.929-07:00I have spent a little time investigating the state...I have spent a little time investigating the state of mortgages, foreclosure, and sales for tax arrears in this country. And the facts of that story correlate with anecdotal information from around the country. I've watched people get evicted from homes they owed a tiny tax bill on or similar. There are predatory Lawyers backed by predatory courts all over the country. And when someone is unemployed, ill, old, injured, or otherwise in financial stress that is when they strike. This has nothing directly to do with LVT except for talking about "caveats" on the tax and that any tax has to be administered humanely or it becomes an agent of tyranny. <br />I haven't mis-stated anything. As usual you didn't bother to read what I actually was writing about, and I'm not confident that this "transition" you talk about has a equilibrium outcome. As to who I'm talking to, you are criticizing me from behind multiple blocks.Chris Holtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01776805168003457665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328187388919034177.post-81187168779726918772015-03-14T21:45:28.036-07:002015-03-14T21:45:28.036-07:00Beware of (and fact-check) stories that sound outr...Beware of (and fact-check) stories that sound outrageous. The standard procedure for a tax sale is that all proceeds other than back taxes and reasonable charges for conducting the sale go back to the taxpayer who was foreclosed upon. Therefore, if the tax sale returned $197,000 on a $134 debt, the taxpayer would get more than $196,000.<br /><br />Also, note that the taxpayer would have had to ignore a lengthy stream of foreclosure notices, and would have to have something wrong with him if he let the property go in a tax sale. Tax sales draw notoriously low bids, meaning that he could have sold the property himself and netted at least $250-300 thousand.<br /><br />I also don't know who you have been speaking to, but you have misstated the view of modern Georgists, who note that the margin of free land would rise so that, once the transition had occurred, much land would have a zero or near-zero rent.<br /><br />Dan Sullivan, president, Council of Georgist OrganizationsDan Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02212577409469999411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328187388919034177.post-20616974622572105142015-03-14T09:56:52.861-07:002015-03-14T09:56:52.861-07:00The single tax only requires that all public reven...The single tax only requires that all public revenue come from land owners. It does NOT require that EVERY land owner be required to give 100% of the rental value of their land to the government. If some get exempted, the general EFFECT of liberating society from private land rent (the purpose) WILL yet be achieved.<br /><br />The Constitution is a compromise with land speculators. The original US Articles of Confederation established the public revenue system on land values because back then, classical economics was common knowledge. Adam Jon Monroe, Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16048153187478258352noreply@blogger.com