Re: Land Value Tax News

"Phil Scott" <philscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Mark Monson" <mmonson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> OIL Fields Are no Pasture for Reindeer, Federation Council
> Says
>> Kommersant - Moscow,Russia
>> ... Russia's Federation Council addressed Prime Minister
> Mikhail Fradkov
>> yesterday, advocating the increase in land tax imposed on
> the fields and
>> deposits of oil/gas/mining companies. The regions claim
> today's system
>> of cadastral valuation underestimates the value of such
> allotments
>> leaving the local budgets with no money ...
>> <http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=586627>
>>
>> JULY date set for land levy launch
>> Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
>> The day after the civic polls in Calcutta and Salt Lake, the
> Buddhadeb
>> Bhattacharjee government announced the launch of land tax
> collection in
>> the city and ...
>>
> <http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050621/asp/calcutta/story_4893
> 215.asp>
>>
>> $10.8 MILLION TO BRAZIL FOR RURAL CADASTRE AND LAND
> REGULARIZATION
>> Harold Doan and Associates (press release) - Rocklin,CA,USA
>> ... will pave the way for land use management projects,
> facilitating
>> government land access programs, and making collection of
> the rural land
>> tax more effective ...
>>
> <http://www.harolddoan.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&;
> sid=3881>
>>
>> PROPERTY tax faces overhaul
>> The Spokesman Review (subscription) - Spokane,WA,USA
>> ... It exempted from taxation 50 percent of the value of an
> owner-occupied
>> home, not counting the land, up to a maximum of $50,000. ...
>> <http://www.spokesmanreview.com/idaho/story.asp?ID=77136>
>>
>> LINGLE signs land tax into law
>> Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
>> By BJ Reyes. Gov. Linda Lingle ignored the advice of some
> fellow
>> Republicans yesterday by signing a bill into law that will
> increase...I
>> did what was right for all the people in the state, and I
> put it above
>> my political career."
>> <http://starbulletin.com/2005/06/24/news/story1.html>
>
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> well... I guess I saw this coming. With the decline in real
> wages,

Caused by massive immigration, massive work visas, massive
outsourcing and NO land tax.

> escalating govt costs and 50 million of the highest tax
> bracket people retiring from our US work force (Half of the
> most skilled)...

How do you expect the new people to get jobs?

> govt bloated like a dead pig in hot
> weather...

Caused by the party who's only way to stay in power
is fear and hatred.

>. property tax is the last refuge.

Land is not _property_.

> Of course with jobs cut back, tax on property with no income
> is just going to drive that entire sector south... it will not
> serve to increase productive use sufficiently to offset the
> damage of over taxation.

We have overspending and not overtaxation. That is
why there is a deficit. And a land tax is ALWAYS
proposed as a replacement for OTHER TAXES.

> Especially as the worked to death middle class will have to
> work even harder to pay for it... the rich will simply find
> loopholes... or run up the rents on their middle class
> tennants to pay the added tax.

This thesis has been proved wrong so many times.
Do you not know any better after all the posts
on this subject BY CHOICE, or do you have a
mental block?


> True idiocy in government. that has far exceeded its
> constitutional mandate in the US.

How can anyone argue with this broad statement? It
is like "Family Values" and "Support the Troops".

> Tax payers are now called on to bomb the *** out of Iraq in
> an utterly bogus pre-emptive war for example... it will go
> south badly.

Not true!!! Pinocchio prints the money needed for the
"war", and china ends up with it.

> The middle class that survives well become very highly skilled
> then underwork themselves to say in low tax brackets and avoid
> burn out and stress from dealing with utterly corrupt
> corporate management and government.

Corporate management will soon be Chinese.

> Moi here works 10 hours a week for that reason...some times 20
> hours.... not such a bad deal... its been fantastically
> beneficial for my health (at age 64).
>

Good on ya. That is the way it should be at 64.

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