Georgism, Part Ten: Has It Ever Been Tried?
When I scanned across the internet, looking for examples of Georgism in practice, I saw frequent references to Singapore and occasional references to Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Denmark,…
Month: August 2018
Georgism, Part Nine: The Morality of Tax Reform
Much of Henry George’s classic work, Progress and Poverty, is devoted to the immorality of our current tax system. Although George didn’t use the following example, I decided to try it,…
Georgism, Part Eight: Let’s Get Real
Okay. So Henry George, writing over a century ago, has convinced me that we could cure many of our social ills merely by changing our tax structure. As we have…
Georgism, Part Seven: His Radical (and Convincing) Tax Proposal
We’re closing in on 150 years since Henry George wrote his classical political/economic work, Progress and Poverty, yet we still haven’t recognized its genius. Now that I’m nearing the end of that…