What light might Wealthandwant themes shed on some of the big issues of the day?

Wealthandwant's themes — over 700 so far — speak to a lot of contemporary issues. Here are links to a just few of the relevant themes. As you explore those pages, you'll find links to other related themes in the sidebars.

1. Iraq

desperado — under the protection of government — natural resources — natural opportunities — created equal — oil — oil revenue — infrastructure — sharing an inheritance — in one's sleep — windfall — financing infrastructure — landlordism — Alaska Permanent Fund — citizens' dividends — incentives — incentive taxation — rent as provisioning for community — land includes — war — poverty — unemployment — fences and bandages — wealth concentration — privatization — liberty

2. Foreclosures

FIRE sector — boom-bust cycles — house rent and wages — housing affordability — speculation — speculators — perverse incentives — windfall — lowering the price of land — land appreciates while buildings depreciate — wealth from land appreciation — paying twice — poverty's causes — necessity of taking rent — depression — desperado

3. Homeownership

land appreciates while buildings depreciate — boom-bust cycles — windfall — FIRE sector — wealth from land appreciation — house rent and wages — housing affordability — urban land values relative to rural — depreciation — equity for the landless — homeownership — home equity — desperado

4. Income Inequality

created equal — equal opportunity — natural opportunities — unemployment — land's importance — free lunch — privatization — natural resources — land includes — land share of real estate value — urban land share of real estate value — slavery — sharecropping — land monopoly — land monopoly capitalism — sharing an inheritance — land as common property — I was here first! — desperado

5. Wealth Inequality

privatization — windfall — natural resources — land includes — land different from capital — under the protection of government — role of government — justice — commons — sharing an inheritance — created equal — privilege — God's eldest sons — desperado

6. Environment and Pollution

environment — pollution — externalities — polluter pays — pay for what you take — user fees — cap and trade — commons — privatization — giveaway or auction (and sell or lease?) — carrying capacity — illth

7. Ending Poverty

poverty — poverty's causes — abolishing poverty — fences and small bandages — unemployment — boom-bust cycles — house rent and wages — created equal — equal opportunity — natural opportunities — underused land — absentee ownership — privatization — privilege — paying twice — wages — wage slavery — all benefits... — in one's sleep — community — burdening the poor — desperado

8. Walkable compact cities

underused land — highest and best use — private sector redevelopment — density — transportation — commuting — infrastructure — financing infrastructure — sharing an inheritance — sprawl — premature development — division of labor — land value mapping — the 100% location — urban land values relative to rural — rentention — leakage — absentee ownership — in one's sleep — incentives — perverse incentives — incentive taxation — rent as provisioning for community— land different from capital — unemployment — housing affordability — lowering the price of land — necessity of taking rent — community — parking — congestion

9. Taxes

tax evasion — canons of taxation — untaxing labor — untaxing buildings — untaxing — deadweight loss — excess burden — unearned increment — surplus — natural resources — urban land value relative to rural — urban land share of real estate value — land share of real estate value — sharing an inheritance — citizen dividends — financing infrastructure — financing education — commons — land as common property — wealth from land appreciation — windfall — free lunch — he who produces — paying twice — capital gains — land different from capital — user fees — parking — necessity of taking rent — effects of taxing land value — effects of not collecting site value — incentives — perverse incentives — incentive taxation — payroll taxes — income taxes — pay for what you take, not for what you make — political economy — tax efficiency — tax administrability — paying twice — tax burden — tax incidence — tax justice — tax simplification — taxes' effects — taxing buildings — taxing capital — taxing income — income tax box — taxes and moral law — taxes and prices — tax bads, not goods! — double taxation — distortionary taxes — balancing individual and collective rights — ad valorem taxes — land value taxation as primary revenue source — sufficiency — paying the wrong party — what's wrong with a sales tax? — revenue not primary — Golden Rule — fruits of one's labors — theft — what's wrong with an income tax?