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A
 

A, B and C*
Abatements
Ability to pay*
About Henry George

Absentee ownership
Accounting Systems
Ad valorem taxes*
Adam Smith
Adequacy of Property Tax on a Local Basis for Financing Education and other Services
Administrability (of taxes) *
Advertising*
Advice for Other Countries 
Agriculture
Agriculture as the example of something universal 

Air 
Air trusts*
Air, Water, Land 
Airlord 
Airports 
Alabama and other low-tax states 
Alaska and the Alaska Permanent Fund 
Algorithms*
Aligning public and private interests*
All benefits accrue to the landowner
America
America as a beacon in the world
America's promise*
American Permanent Fund*
Annual Value *
Anticipating Population Growth
Appropriation 
Arden, Delaware*
Arrogating
Assessment
Assessment districts
Asset poverty 

Association in equality *
ATCOR (all taxes come out of rent) 
Attracting Capital
Auctions
Australia
Automobile 
Ayn Rand
 
B
 
Balance in taxation?*
Balancing collective rights and individual rights*
Barriers to entry
 
Basic income 
Beneficence of the creator 
Benefits received *
Biblical ethics
Big land holders 
Biggest beneficiaries of land value taxation*
Binding other generations 
Biodiversity*
Birthright
Blackleg *
Blackstone
Blaming the victim*
Blasphemy
Blunt Policy Instruments 
Boom-Bust Cycles 
Boston *
Both ethical and fiscal *
Bricks
Brotherhood, fraternity*
Brownfields*
Bubble
Buffalo commons*
Building Residual Method 
Burden on the economy*
Burdening the Poor
Burdenless taxation *
Edmund Burke*
Business Depression 
But I'm not a land monopolist, am I? 
By any other name 

 

C  

Cain and Abel
Caesarism *
California 
Campaign Finance
Edwin Cannan*
Canons of Taxation 
Cap and trade*
Capital
Capital and Labor
Capital Formation 
Capital Gains — or Land Gains?
Capital Markets
Capitalism and community*
Capitalism and democracy*

Capitalism — Refining 
Capitalist*
Capitalization
Captain Kidd
Carbon dioxide*
Carbon taxes
*

Carlyle 
Carrying capacity*
CEO Pay 
CGO — The Council of Georgist Organizations*
Change the System 
Charity
Cheap land *
Checkerboard Development*
Chicago *
Chicago School 
Child labor *

Children*
C
hildren's opportunity trust*
Chodorov

Christian ethics

Christianity reinforcing privilege 
Citizen Dividends
Civil strife *
Civilization
Class war
Classical liberals 
Classical vs Neo-Classical Economists 
Coase 
Cobden
Collectors' Items  
Command and Control 
Commerce *
Common Good 
Common Property
Common property trusts *
Commons 
Commons algorithm *
Commons sector *
Commons tax credits *
Communications
Community
Community collection of rents *
Community gardens*
Communities leaking revenue
Commuting
Compensation
Competition
Concentration of Wealth
Confiscation 
Congestion
Conservatism
Constitution
Construction Costs
Consumption 
Consumption tax wrong *
Contractarianism
Cooperation *
Corporate art *
Corporations and government *
Corporations and society *
Corporations' ascent *
Corporations as land owners
Corporation Privileges
Corruption 
Cost of Living 
Counter-arguments against taxing land
Created Equal

Crime
Culture *
  D  
Deadweight Loss 
Debt
Declaration of Independence 

Defense 
Deficit and public debt
Is democracy enough?

Density
 
Depleting resources *
Depreciation 
Des Moines
Desperado

Developer

Digital TV *
Direct taxes *
Disabled 
Distortionary taxes *
Distortions

Distribution *
Distribution of wealth *
Division of labor *
Do Justice
Do Justice, give freedom *
Dogs in the Manger 
double taxation *
Duke of Argyll *
Duke of Westminster *

  E  
Each Child's Rights 
Earth is the Lord's 
Ecological Economics 
Economic Growth 
Economic Justice
Economic rent and building rent
Economic operating system *
Economics Textbooks
Economists *
Ecosystem Services 
Education
Effect of taxing land value 

Effects of not collecting site rent  Efficiency of land value taxation
Egalitarianism
Eminent Domain

Enclosure

Energy
Enough to go around *
Enough and as good *
Entrepreneur
Environment 
Equal liberty *

  F  
Factors
Fairness
Family History
Famine
Farmers and Land Value Taxation

Fear of poverty *
Federal Taxes
Feedback loops *
Fences and bandages

Feudalism *
Fiduciary *
Financing Education

Financing fire protection *
Financing Infrastructure
FIRE (Finance, Insurance & Real Estate ) sector
First (as in “I was there first!”)
First principles
 
Fiscal Federalism
Fiscal Stimulus 
Flipping 
Flow
Foreign Aid
Foresight
Founding Fathers and First Families
Franchises *
Free gift of nature *

Free Land *
Free Lunches

Free Market 
Free Market Capitalism
Free market environmentalism *
Freedom
Freedom to employ oneself *
Free trade *
Friedman
Frontier
Fruits
Full Employment
Future generations *

  G  

John Kenneth Galbraith *
Generations
G
eographic Information Systems (GIS) *
Geonomic Life
Geonomy
Georgist Errors
Gini and Lorenz

Giveaway or auction? sale or lease? *
Givings
global atmosphere trust *

global carbon trust *
global commons initiatives *
Global Conflict
Globalization *
God's bounty *
God's Eldest Sons
God's Wisdom
Going Ahead
Golden Rule

Golf
Gospel of Justice
Government's Role

Grandchildren
Great Minds
Green Taxes
Ground rent *
Groundwater trusts *

Growing the Pie
GUT: Grand Unifying Theory
  H  

Hand to mouth *
Happiness *
Hard times *
Harrisburg *

He who produces
Health care *
Heaven
Henry George Theorem
Highest and Best Use

History of Economics
History of taxation
Hoarding Land 
Hole in the Ground 
Home Equity
Homeownership
Hong Kong
Hotel Taxes
House rent and wages *
Housing Affordability
Homer Hoyt 
Human Desires
Human Nature
Hunger
Hunter-gatherer society *
  I  
Illusion of Freedom
illth *
Immigration
Importance of Land

Indirect Taxation
Individual nature of man *
Industrial Capacity
Industrial Depression
Industrial Slavery 
Inequality
Inelastic supply *
Infill
Inflation
Infrastructure
Injustice
Injustice of Current Taxes
Innocent purchaser *

  J  
Jeffersonian ideals 
Job creation
Jobs chasing people
Johannesburg
Jubilee
Judeo-Christian Tradition
Just passing through *
Justice
Justice among nations
Justice changing
Justice ongoing
Justifications for land value taxation
  K  
Kingdom of God *    
  L  

Labor
Labor-saving devices *
Laborers as poor *
Laissez faire
Land poor
Land
Land a gift of nature*
Land acquiring value *
Land and labor *
Land and public finance
Land appreciates, buildings depreciate 
Land as God's provisioning for all
Land as common property

Land concentration
Land defined 
Land is different from capital
Land different from labor

Land dues
Land "earning" more than work
Land grabbers *
Land excludes
Land history
Land is power *
Land includes
Land monopoly
Land monopoly capitalism
Land nationalization *
Land price cycle

Land prices
Land prices and taxes *
Land problem
Land progression

Land redistribution
land reform *
Land residual method

LSREV (land share of real estate value)
Land that shouldn't be built on
Land trusts *
Land value

Land value and women's employment

Land value taxation
Land value taxation and rent

Land value taxation is not a tax on land
Land value mapping
Land value taxation as primary revenue source
Land value scale
Landed Gentry *
Landholders *
Landless
Landlord

Landlordism *
Land's Productiveness *
Latifundiazation
Law of Development
Law of Human Progress *
Law of Rent
Law of Wages
Laws of Economics *
Leakage: communities leaking revenue
Leased Land *
Leisure *

Leveling the playing field *
Levels of government *

Liberalism
Liberation theology
Libertarian
Liberty
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity
Licenses

Abraham Lincoln *
(John) Lincoln Foundation
Lobbyists

Local art *
Local commons initiatives *

Local government
Location, location, location

Lock-in effect 
Locke

Lord's Prayer
 
Low rent places *
Lowering the price of land

LSREV (land share of real estate value)
LV and women's employment
LVT - land value taxation
LVT as primary revenue source
LVT as social reform *
LVT as fiscal measure *
LVT and rent

LVT is not a tax on land 

  M  

Made land *
Magnitude of rent *
Majoritarian
Malthus *
Man dependent on land *
Man different from animals *
Man intellectual and spiritual *
Manna
Margin of production
Marginal land
Market fundamentalism *
Measurement, Statistics and Decision-making

Media
Meritocracy 
Michigan
Middle men *
John Stuart Mill
Millstones *
Mines and minerals *
Minimum wage *
Missionary
Misunderstandings *
Mixing one's labor with land

Mobility

Monarchy

Monetary
Monopoly and oligopoly
Monopoly (the game) *
Moral insights
More men, more yield *
Mortgages
Moses and Mosaic law
Mother's milk *
My beautiful mind 
  N  

National commons initiatives *
Native Americans and land

Natural capital
Natural law
 
Natural monopolies
Natural opportunities
Natural resources

Natural taxation *
Necessity of taking rent 
Neighbors' actions

Neo-classical economics

Neutrality
New country
New Orleans *
New Zealand

NIMBY
No right to employment *
No victims

Albert Nock
Not a tax *
Not passed on
New York City
  O  

Oasis
Obesity

Obsolescence
Oceans

Oil
Oil revenue *
Old land and new assets
On earth as it is in heaven

One underlying problem
Oneself
Open space

Options markets in land

Other countries
Our daily bread
Our Father*

Overallocating
Overcrowding
The Myth of Overpopulation

Overproduction
Owner-occupied
Ownership
  P  

Profits *
Progress

Progressivity
Prolonged adolescence 
Promised land
Proposition 13
Propertizing *
Property rights 
Property tax

Property tax caps
Property tax is two taxes

Property tax relief
Property values and subsidies 
Property values and transportation

Prosperity
Protecting the poor
Protection of the state (nation of laws)
Protectionists

Proudhon 
Public debt *
Public expenditure
 
Public goods
Public lands and resources
Public services
Public spaces *
Public transportation *
Public trough 
Public trust *
Public utilities *
Publicly funded research *

Purpose of living 

  Q  
Quaint agrarian idea? Quotable Nobels Quotable notables
  R  

Rack-rented 
Radical 
Railroads
John Rawls *
Real estate
Real estate fortunes
Reason *
Recycling
Recycling old factories
Recycling revenue
Red and blue
Redevelopment
Redistribution
Refining Capitalism
Regional commons initiatives *
Regressive and progressive
Rent-seeking 

Rent
Rent - agricultural
Rent and wages
Rent as God's provisioning for community 
Rent as private property *
Rent as capitalized transportation cost *
Rent control
Rent defined
Rent is for the entire community
*
Rent tends to rise *
Rent to the landlord is mispaid *
Rentention 
Rentiers
Reparations
Revenue not primary
Revenue sharing 

Rewards of industry *
Ricardo
Rich and poor *

Rich get rich
Right and wrong *
Right to employment *
Right to life
Rights
Ripening
Rising tide *
Robin Hood 
Robinson Crusoe 
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rothbard
Royalties
Ruling class 
Rural

Russia *

  S  

Savings & Loan crisis
Sales taxes
What's wrong with a sales tax? *
Saving 
Scarcity 
Secession
Seeing the Cat
Self-actualization
Self employment *
Seniors
Services and goods *
Service businesses 
Severance tax 
Sharecropping 
Sharing an inheritance *
Sharing rent
Shaw
Thomas Shearman *
Shifting taxes

Shining city
Shrinking government

Sim commons *
Sin taxes
Single tax
Single parents

Site recycling
Slavery and its aftermath

Slavery parallels
Slums
Slums and gentrification 
Small business
Small government
Small landholders *
Small towns 
Social classes
Social growth *
Social justice
Social organism *
Social Problems
Social progress

Social Security *
Social surplus
Social welfare programs
Something for nothing *
Sources of rent
Sovereign *

Soviet Union
Special interests
Spectrum
Spectrum trust *

Speculation
Speculative rent *
Speculators
Herbert Spencer *
Split-rate taxation
Sprawl
Stability of revenue 
Stakeholder society
Starve government
Steerage *
Stewardship
Joseph Stiglitz *
Stock and flow *
Streets and parking
Subsidies
Subtle alchemy

Sufficiency
Sun Yat-Sen *
Superheroes
Supply-side economics
Supply and demand
Supporting a family
Surplus
Surplus capitalism*
Sustainability

  T  

Taiwan
Take what you need and leave the rest
Takings and givings
Talent
Tariffs
Tax-exempt land 
Tax administrability 
Tax bads, not goods *
Tax burden
Tax certainty *
Tax deferral *
Tax efficiency *
Tax evasion
Tax incidence
Tax justice
Tax reform

Tax simplification
Taxes' effects
Taxes and moral law
*
Taxes and prices *
Taxes on imports *
Taxes, supply and demand *
Taxi medallions
Taxing buildings
Taxing capital
Taxing productive activity *
Taxing wages

Teardowns
Technological progress
Temptation *
Ten Commandments
Tenant
Tenants' improvements 
The greater Leviathan *
The 100% location
Seeing the Cat
The great paradox
The labor of others *
The labor question *
The land question
The least of these
The remedy
Theft

Theological 
Think big 
Third way
Third world countries
 
Thneeds *
Thou shalt not steal

Three-factor economics
Three hats *
Three parcels of land 
Three sources
Thy Kingdom Come *
Tic-tac-toe
Tiebout

Timber
Time doesn't transform wrong to right *
Tithe
Title

To whom much is given
Tobin
Tollgates and tollpayers *
Top percentiles
Trade
Trade unions
Tragedy of the (unmanaged) commons 
Tramps
Transition
Transportation
Transportation costs *
Trespassing on common ground *
Trickle-down economics *
Trustee *

Truth
Turnover of land
Two-factor economics
Two-rate property tax
Two neighboring lots
Tyranny *

  U  

U'Ren
Under the protection *
Underground economy
Underused land

Unearned increment
Unemployment

Untaxing

Untaxing buildings and other capital
Untaxing labor

Unto whom much is given *
Urban issues
Urban Land Share of Real Estate Value (Urban LSREV)
Urban land values relative to rural
Urban planning
User fees
Usufruct
Usury *
Utilitarian
Utilities
Utopia
  V  
Value *
Bill Vickrey
Ludwig Von Mises Voter apathy
  W  

Wage disparities
Wage slaves
Wages
Wages tending to a minimum *
War
Warping of economics
Warping of Christianity
Waste
Water
Water trusts *
Watershed trusts *

Wealth
Wealth and labor *
Wealth concentration
Wealth from land appreciation
Wealth from privatizing rent *
Wealth gap
Wedge
Well-being
Well-provisioned ship
What percentage? *
What rate? *
Whole hog or lite? *
Why tax rent?

Widow's skirts
WiFi *
Wilderness
Windfall
Winner's curse
Women
Work
Working for change
Working man, beggar, or thief *
Working poor

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