alyaza [they/she]M to U.S. News@beehaw.orgEnglish • 11 months agoCould this obscure tax idea reshape American housing? Detroit may put the land-value tax to the testwww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldusa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkCould this obscure tax idea reshape American housing? Detroit may put the land-value tax to the testwww.vox.comalyaza [they/she]M to U.S. News@beehaw.orgEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldusa@lemmy.ml
minus-square@blouplink1•edit-211 months agoIt’s tragic how land value tax and Henry George are considered “obscure” these days when his book about it, “Progress and Poverty”, sold more copies than any other book in the United States in 1890 except for the Bible.
It’s tragic how land value tax and Henry George are considered “obscure” these days when his book about it, “Progress and Poverty”, sold more copies than any other book in the United States in 1890 except for the Bible.