http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/ The Value Capture/Land Tax Idea Factory Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:28:14 GMT David Reed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7725 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7725 One of the things that prompts the debate about dividends and exemptions is the perceived need to appeal to the electorate with some obvious boon.This is a bit Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:05 GMT walto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7724 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7724 I leave to Roy to support his proposal. I wasn't saying he's right, only indicating that he's claims to that effect. W Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:09:29 GMT walto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7723 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7723 That is interesting and helpful, Dan. But I do think that the first order of business is to determine whether there ought to be EITHER a CD or exemption. As Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:08:36 GMT walto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7722 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7722 This is interesting and might be helpful, but as I indicated earlier, its value is bound to depend on one's conceptions of the main problem being addressed, Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:57:35 GMT Scott Bergeson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7721 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7721 Subject: Re: [LandCafe] Moderation Quoting Dan Sullivan on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:48:10 -0500: ___ds___ Whether it would or not, it would be foolish not to ally Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:50:04 GMT roy_langston1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7720 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7720 ... This suggestion strikes me as rather naive. People who once get their hands on privilege do not willingly relinquish it. Distributing landownership more Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:47:52 GMT Dan Sullivan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7719 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7719 ... I think moderation is a good thing if the purpose is not to block ideas, but to prevent bad style from getting in the way. ... I agree. ... It certainly Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:23:19 GMT David Reed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7718 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7718 Am not sure that this is the right moment for moderation. Unlike other occasions when the bartender has,alerted by the noise of breaking furniture, come wading Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:13:30 GMT Dan Sullivan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7717 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7717 Let us look at some practical applications of the CD and the Exemption. OPTIMAL USE OF HUMAN TALENT Henry and George both get land, on which they can raise Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:19:40 GMT Jeffery J. Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7716 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7716 ... Please try to support. Thanks, W. SMITH, Jeffery J. President, Forum on Geonomics jjs@...; www.progress.org Land Rights course: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:13:19 GMT Harry Pollard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7715 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7715 The problem is, Eric, that Dan has much to offer and this will be lost if he is removed for a time. I'm not sure he would come back anyway. That would serious Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:57:49 GMT walto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7714 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7714 ... This paragraph, I think, is the very heart of the continuing dispute between Roy and his adversaries. Certainly much of the writing of Henry George at Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:53:13 GMT Eric Britton http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7713 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7713 Dan Sullivan has just posted to me a thought-provoking note (which I certainly invite him to share in full with the group), in which he brings up a couple of Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:46:07 GMT roy_langston1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7712 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7712 I have not previously responded to this post because I was also curious to see what others thought, and because I make it a policy not to respond to threads of Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:32:52 GMT Jeffery J. Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7711 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LandCafe/message/7711 ... Rarely do I ever any more read the few remainders. SMITH, Jeffery J. President, Forum on Geonomics jjs@...; www.progress.org Land Rights course: