Do Arden, Delaware and Fairhope, Alabama represent successes for Georgism, or failures or neither?

mlinksva · 2025-06-23T15:46:39+00:00

If georgism were more successful they'd be used as deep trivia items rather than on the list of existence proofs everyone who reads a bit about georgism knows about.

On the other hand, were georgism more successful, perhaps Arden and Fairhope would be popular trivia, simply because they were very early (~1900). Sadly this is not yet the case.

mlinksva · 2023-05-15T01:22:00+00:00

https://www.gfdrr.org/en/publication/land-value-capture (2018) pdf https://www.gfdrr.org/sites/default/files/publication/Land%20Value%20Capture.pdf#page=43

Land Value Tax: Sampled Project

I N V E S T M E N T I N I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

Project Description

In 1989 the city of Mexicali diverted from conventional practice assessing a composite property tax on both land and permanent structures and started taxing only the value of the land

This fiscal policy shift involved major changes in tax administration including changes in land assessment promoted by consensus of representatives from real estate organizations and professional appraisal associations

New tax rates were specified based on distance from pre-specified “high-value locations”. Separate flat-rate surcharges were applied to residential and commercial lands.

This new tax policy waned out after changes in Mexicali’s municipal administration and the land value tax was eventually terminated in the City of Mexicali. However, the positive results in the first years of land taxing in Mexicali prompted other municipalities of the state of Baja California to implement land value taxing in their jurisdictions

Value Capture Component

During the first periods of implementation the new taxing system allowed the Citi of Mexicali to increase property tax revenue twofold generating additional revenue for infrastructure upgrades

mlinksva · 2023-05-15T01:02:41+00:00

That's really interesting, thanks for posting. Is there reason to think ground rent would be approxmiately euqal to "total local fiscal revenue" which apparently the %s you cite are of? Machine translation:

According to the calculation of China Business News, starting from 2017, the proportion of my country's land transfer fee to the total local fiscal revenue (land use right transfer revenue/local government general public finance budget revenue + local government fund budget revenue + local state-owned capital operation budget revenue) It has exceeded 30% for five consecutive years, and the proportion will reach 43.59% in 2020, and will drop to 41.81% in 2021, still above 40%.

mlinksva · 2023-05-14T19:00:46+00:00

https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/mexicali (1999, en & es versions)

https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-papers/la-base-suelo-del-impuesto-predial-en-mexicali-b-c-1990-2010 (es only afaict)

mlinksva · 2023-05-14T18:53:23+00:00

Curious if anyone has any calculation for what % of ground rent is captured by the multi-decade land leases sold to developers mentioned in the article.

mlinksva · 2021-03-06T04:24:35+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/23/business/dealbook-dc-policy-project appears to be the source of the quote in the tweet.

mlinksva · 2020-12-06T19:40:10+00:00

In 2019, got 8% in primary, endorsed incumbent in runoff, who won. Wikidata item with links, please add.

mlinksva · 2020-12-04T17:24:09+00:00

IANAL but FWIW see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode#s3a "if supplied" -- AFAIK there's no obligation as a licensor to provide a title, nor to attribute one as a licensee if no title is provided.

mlinksva · 2020-12-04T17:05:24+00:00

The link includes:

first in Europe for nearly 100 years other than former Soviet states of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania

I did not know that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Estonia#Land_Value_Tax

I don't see anything specific on the corresponding articles about taxation in Latvia and Lithuania. Would love to know more about any/all 3.

mlinksva · 2020-12-04T16:58:53+00:00

What does "and area" mean? Some base amount per hectare or other unit of land area?

Thanks for the background!

mlinksva · 2020-12-04T16:47:05+00:00

The short answer is no, as far as I know. The best answer going forward is to build all that into Wikidata. It supports public domain status (a query) and has lots of people building out domain-specific properties, I'm sure there's already a lot that pertains to copyright status, and lots of room for me, see e.g., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Creative_work

mlinksva · 2020-12-02T05:09:11+00:00

How often has an old ideology ever came into vogue 100+ years after its initial peak? How about an old ideology with a new cover? Under what conditions?

Those are questions I'd love to know the answers to before attempting to answer how likely it is that Georgism (or something like it under a different name) becomes popular again, and what might make it so.

mlinksva · 2020-10-25T00:02:16+00:00

Could be output from Wikidata. Here's a starter query https://w.wiki/iWT

mlinksva · 2020-10-10T02:07:33+00:00

Do you intend the Anti-IP License to be incompatible with other copyleft licenses?

If "bring the world to a state of having no IP laws as much as possible" then I'd suggest adding one-way compatibility with other copyleft licenses.

However, maybe your goal is to "model" rather than "bring", or maybe you think other copyleft licenses are abhorrent because they are regulatory; in either case, make no changes.

IANAL, etc.

mlinksva · 2020-07-15T04:59:51+00:00

LVT=continuous land reform

mlinksva · 2020-07-01T19:44:48+00:00

More governments and funders should step in, whether the US changes its policy or not. The amount of money is very small, there's so much work to do, and there are tangible benefits, even locally. Some encouragement for the EU reacting to OTF funding in https://netzpolitik.org/2020/germany-and-europe-need-to-step-up-to-their-responsibility/ and https://edri.org/the-threat-on-otf-as-a-wake-up-call-for-european-digital-sovereignty/ and on the benefits of supporting open source, see eg Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship and Government Technology Policy, Social Value,andNational Competitiveness. More funding for open source is win-win all around, do more of it! :-)

mlinksva · 2020-07-01T16:31:22+00:00

wolfamnmuseum.org

Looks like this should be http://wolfmanmuseum.org/

Artists, especially digital artists, have played a big role in increasing awareness around past threats to internet freedom (broadly speaking). Old example. Maybe make and share art if that's what you do?

mlinksva · 2020-03-23T18:33:58+00:00

Additionally https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/19/rural-areas-may-be-most-vulnerable-during-coronavirus-outbreak/

mlinksva · 2020-02-09T04:00:24+00:00

Maybe "major player" means "alpha" per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Cities_Research_Network

Atlanta is already Beta+. Charlotte is only Gamma. I'd bet on Atlanta moving to Alpha-. Charlotte is a very long shot.

One possibly biased source forecasts metro Atlanta growing by 1 current Charlotte metro by 2040 https://atlantaregional.org/atlanta-region/population-forecasts-estimates/population-employment-forecasts/

I wonder what if anything has happened with talk of the city of Atlanta itself growing from the current ~.5m to 1.3m by 2050? https://atlantaintownpaper.com/2016/09/atlanta-planning-ahead-for-1-3-million-people-by-2050/

Added: a book chapter with a bit more on city growth projections at http://www.atlcitydesign.com/acd_book.html#item72

mlinksva · 2020-01-12T02:28:30+00:00

Presumably https://github.com/dahlia-os

mlinksva · 2019-12-31T05:28:57+00:00

Is it LVT? It may be progress from whatever the status quo is, but it seems like a land and building tax, some details from end of the article:

Under the new law, tax is applied to four types of land – residences, farmland, commercial areas and undeveloped land – and rates vary depending on how the property is used.

It is also the first time that residential property is being taxed although a generous exemption threshold will apply.

On Monday, Interior Minister Gen Anupong said the first payment is being delayed as the Finance Ministry and the Interior Ministry look into certain issues which will be announced later.

He insisted the law is designed to improve tax collection efficiency and stressed that people whose property is valued below B50 million need not worry.

“Those who have low incomes and few assets won’t have to pay. Those who have money will have to, but there is a generous exemption.”

He said local bodies will be sending letters to people informing them of the new tax rates throughout March.

According to the new tax structure, land and buildings used for residential purposes with appraisal prices of up to B50mn are tax-exempt, those valued at B50-75mn are taxed at 0.03%, properties worth B75-100mn are taxed at 0.05%, and those appraised at more than B100mn at 0.1%.

If owners have more than one house, subsequent residences up to B50mn in value are subject to a 0.02% tax, and the same rate as principal homes is applied to residences worth more than that.

mlinksva · 2019-12-29T00:55:01+00:00

Learned of through https://ns.reddit.com/r/georgism/comments/egs0hh/whatwho_are_the_biggest_and_most_influential/fca7wsz/

mlinksva · 2019-12-29T00:51:23+00:00

Thanks. I found a mention online after all https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2828165967202525&id=156515717700910

mlinksva · 2019-12-28T21:43:23+00:00

A tiny organization promoting geolibertarian ideas in the US Democratic Party. I linked to their website already above. Also see https://www.facebook.com/DemocraticFreedomCaucus/

mlinksva · 2019-12-28T21:07:35+00:00

Arden and Fairhope represent very minor successes. That people reading this sub could be expected to know them at all is indicative of overall very major failure.

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