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Hello & Welcome Speech: Punch Lane Launch

Andy Moore, President of Prosper Australia. May 31st, 2013 We are here tonight for the launch of a new look and invigorated think tank – Prosper Australia’s new Punch Lane address – as we migrate closer to the corridors of power at the state legislature. Tonight we...

A grounded tax system for australia

You are cordially invited to an interactive seminar: A Grounded Tax System for Australia by David Collyer photo credit: Nuytsia@Tas Why work for wages when tax takes the cream? Why risk a business when government sucks your blood? And why landowners make our lives...

Land and Monopoly

By Winston Churchill Speech given to the House of Commons Land monopoly is not the only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies - it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly. Unearned increments in land are not the...

Please Explain, Mr Brumby

Derived from the presentation by Lev Lafayette at the Hume Global Learning Centre, June 28, 2006 Introduction Tonight I am representing Prosper Australia, an organisation which has, in various guises, been a part of Victoria for over one hundred years. One key...

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...