By Karl Fitzgerald Crikey If we are all borne onto this planet as equals, why are some subsidised to own the planet at the expense of others? Don't we all deserve a roof over our heads? The right to participate in the Great Australian Dream? This is what Gen X, Y...
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Hobart Has Made It Into the Big League! – Leo Foley
The Mercury House prices have pushed us into the top 20 of unaffordable cities in the world. After seven years of boom, the legacy of this government, elected by ordinary working people, will be a city owned by the elites. It need not be so. House building is a...
History’s Lessons – Terry Dwyer
The Australian Mr Michael Janda’s advocacy of land value taxation as a means of lowering the tax burden on both workers and entrepreneurs is well advised. As Adam Smith recognized, there are only three factors of production - land, labour and capital - and only one of...
Land Based Wealth An Illusion
The Age Dear editor, Alan Moran (The Age, August 3, "Land-based wealth an illusion") has it partially right. He correctly claims that inflationary pressures provide the impetus for interest rate pressures. He also correctly claims that there is a disparity between...
Victorians Risk Losing Homes
Dear Editor, So now we discover the effects of reducing state land tax and councils moving away from site rental value for rates to capital improved value ("Victorians Risk Losing Homes", Herald Sun, July 17). Deriving public finances from the productive activities of...