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Six Centuries of Work and Wages
Professor Thorold Rogers "I have stated more than once that the fifteenth century and the first quarter of the sixteenth were the golden age of the English labourer, if we are to interpret the wages which he earned by the cost of the necessaries of life. At no time...
Cheated, Robbed and Bamboozled
Richard Cobden: Parliamentary Corn Law debates [1845] "I warn ministers, and I warn landlords and the aristocracy of this country, against forcing on the attention of the middle and industrial classes, the subject of taxation ..... If you were to bring forward the...
How To Abolish Unfair Taxation
Clarence Darrow, Attorney, Philosopher Clarence Darrow of Chicago became known and respected the world round as a courageous and intelligent foe of special privilege and monopoly. His social and economic philosophy rested on the same basic principles as those of...
The Mother of All Monopolies
Winston Churchill - From a Speech Delivered at King's Theatre in Edinburgh on 17 July 1909 It is quite true that land monopoly is not the only monopoly which exists, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies - it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all...
Land Price as a Cause of Poverty
Winston Churchill's Speech in the House of Commons, 4 May 1909, in response to Mr AJ Balfour, Leader of the Opposition The immemorial custom of nearly every modern State, the mature conclusions of many of the greatest thinkers, have placed the tenure, transfer, and...
Letter to Gorbachev
November 7, 1990 Four of the West’s top economists – Nobel prize-winners Franco Modigliani, James Tobin, Robert Solow and William Vickery – were among the signatories to an open letter to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990. The economists urged the Soviet President to retain...
Reserve Bank warned: Housing Affordability Tool Box Empty
Speculators rub their hands with glee at prospect of further tax write offs "Today's interest rate increases have rewarded the wrong people. Speculators will today be able to increase the amount of tax they can write off" said Prosper Australia spokesman Karl...
Interest Rates and the Healthy Economy – Bryan Kavanagh
Letter to the Age Dear Sir, So let me get this right. Messrs Howard and Costello say the economy has been going so well that the RBA intervened by increasing interest rates to slow it down again? But why should anyone want slow down a healthy economy? Did the...
Housing Affordability Hampered by a Tax Regime That Supports Speculators Over Citizens
Visiting housing affordability expert Frank de Jong said 'the Census shows 830,376 vacant dwellings in the country. This demonstrates that it is the private supply of land withheld by speculators, rather than the need for more urban sprawl, that is hurting the housing...
Leader Of The Green Party Of Ontario, Canada launches Local Campaign Against Vacant Land
Strong Link between Vacant Land and Housing Affordability Crisis Leader of the Green Party of Ontario, Canada, Frank de Jong today launched Earthsharing Australia's ‘I Want To Live Here' campaign. The campaign targets the under use of existing vacant land and will...
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