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	<title>Prosper Australia &#187; land tax</title>
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		<title>History of Debt and Property from the Ancient East</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/20/history-of-debt-and-property-from-the-ancient-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/07/20/history-of-debt-and-property-from-the-ancient-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hudson As first published in The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times, David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol, eds., (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010):8-39. Also on Michael&#8217;s website. A century ago economists could only speculate as to the origins of enterprise. It seemed logical to assume that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria’s Transport Plan a No-Brainer</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/06/10/victoria%e2%80%99s-transport-plan-a-no-brainer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/06/10/victoria%e2%80%99s-transport-plan-a-no-brainer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[    photo credit: Schaffner Sometimes the ignorance of experts makes my blood boil.  Why can’t they do the arithmetic, the sums plainly before them? The Victorian Transport Plan will cost $38 billion and produce benefits of $180 billion, according to a state-commissioned report by Ernst and Young.  If these numbers are right, the Plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia’s Needless Foreign Borrowing</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/17/australia%e2%80%99s-needless-foreign-borrowing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/17/australia%e2%80%99s-needless-foreign-borrowing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 04:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Adam_T4 Michael Hudson and Shann Turnbull*              Confronted by the global financial crisis that is burying foreign economies deeper in debt deflation each month, Australia needs to protect itself – indeed, to liberate itself from as many costs and risks as it can. Fortunately, many of its costs and risks are unnecessary, merely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Gold in a Coal Mine</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/11/like-gold-in-a-coal-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/11/like-gold-in-a-coal-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 05:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Kavanagh]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: 10b travelling   Clear-eyed media commentary in the national interest is rare and sweet. Alan Mitchell&#8217;s analysis of the Henry Tax Review in the Australian Financial Review -  A tax on all your economic rents  &#8211; is such a creature. He opens with a broadside at entrenched interests pretending the changes will affect the economy: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Henry wants you to read his Tax Review. Really, Really.</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/04/dr-henry-wants-you-to-read-his-tax-review-really-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/04/dr-henry-wants-you-to-read-his-tax-review-really-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 05:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  photo credit: raminders We follow the glitter of celebrities and our football teams and let others do the dull work of government. Our dreams are about homes, cars and holidays. But sometimes an issue is so important it deserves our undivided attention, if only for a short while. The big issue is tax – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Review: what about the land tax recommendations 51 to 54?</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/03/henry-review-what-about-the-land-tax-recommendations-51-to-54/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/03/henry-review-what-about-the-land-tax-recommendations-51-to-54/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 04:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Troy McClure SF Gavin R. Putland Published in today&#8217;s Crikey In contrast to the Henry report&#8217;s advice that payroll tax be eventually abolished (recommendations 55 and 57), the Rudd government has decided to increase its own payroll tax. No, really. Australia&#8217;s federally mandated, employer-funded 9% superannuation contribution is equivalent in every way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Review puts Land Tax on the Agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/02/henry-review-puts-land-tax-on-the-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/05/02/henry-review-puts-land-tax-on-the-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 06:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2074</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: anarchosyn The Henry Tax Review’s highlighting of Land Tax as a policy direction is a welcome and encouraging development, says Prosper Australia. “This is THE tool to liberate the people of Australia from their current financial difficulties,” Prosper Australia’s Karl Fitzgerald said today.  “Consider the enormous economic benefits this reform offers. “Taxing land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Australia, the world is watching, waiting for our bubble to burst</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/29/dear-australia-the-world-is-watching-waiting-for-our-bubble-to-burst/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/29/dear-australia-the-world-is-watching-waiting-for-our-bubble-to-burst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2067</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  photo credit: robertivanc The great property speculation game is over in America and Europe.  The music has stopped. Forty years of steadily increasing pressure has been released.  Houses are worth a fraction of what people paid in better times, while the giant mortgages they took on remain. Meanwhile, Australia parties on.  We play the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expensive land is changing the shape of Australia.</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/27/expensive-land-is-changing-the-shape-of-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/27/expensive-land-is-changing-the-shape-of-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.prosper.org.au/?p=2064</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  photo credit: Zach K   The Melbourne versus Sydney rivalry has been reignited &#8211; Melbourne’s population is growing faster and is projected to overtake Sydney by 2037, a new report predicts. Going Nowhere, a report by BIS Shrapnel for a property developer lobby group, shows Melbourne building new homes at twice the rate of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tide Turns. The Media Awakes.</title>
		<link>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/22/the-tide-turns-the-media-awakes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.prosper.org.au/2010/04/22/the-tide-turns-the-media-awakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Collyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: midlander1231   For too long, the media eagerly reported the property spruikers’ claim ‘prices only go higher’. This ‘truth’ turned homeowners into speculators and led a whole generation of first home buyers to commit to enormous mortgages they will only pay off after thirty years of unrelenting sacrifice. This week the public story [...]]]></description>
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