Download or read book Our Land Our Rent Our Jobs written by Stephen Meintjes and published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa, like many countries in Africa, is resource rich but the benefits are not shared by the whole population. High levels of unemployment are leading to increasing conflict and violence, undermining the brighter future hoped for when apartheid was abolished. The authors set out a proposal to unleash their country's potential for growth in a way that benefits investors and the poorest by reforming taxation--a blueprint for other developing countries. The rapid development of Taiwan and South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s owed much to a similar, business-friendly tax reform. Governments today tax social ills like tobacco and alcohol to discourage use, but do we want to discourage work and investment? The authors reveal that it is to make half the country economically unviable. Instead, the government needs to collect the value it creates and stop taxing the value created by labor and capital. To achieve this, they propose replacing most taxes with land value rentals, similar in effect to the tried and tested gold mine tax formula. This reveals a potentially rich source of government revenue that would allow the burden of taxation to be shifted off investment and labor, thereby encouraging more development and creating more jobs. Such a regime would encourage the owner of land to put it to its best use or sell it for someone else to use. It would also make viable public investment in new infrastructure projects. These would become self-financing, because the uplift in land values due to the improved amenities would automatically be captured in higher rentals payable to the government, a kind of virtuous circle.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book The Wisconsin Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Debt High Growth Low Tax written by Andrew Purves and published by Shepard-Walwyn (IPG). This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments around the world are wrestling with the problems of enormous debts, low growth, high unemployment and a gap between the demands of public expen-diture and what can be raised through taxation. This problem has been acute since the financial crisis, but has been a hallmark of western economies for decades.Only a few countries have been able to avoid this pattern, mostly those blessed with vast natural resources such as oil. However, there are two small islands with no natural resources which have also enjoyed high growth combined with low taxation: Hong Kong and Singapore. Nor do they have any public debts, in fact, on the contrary, they generally run a budget surplus, and investment income is a feature of their government revenue.Andrew Purves, who grew up on the island of Hong Kong, has gone beyond the conventional analysis of taxation, and asked what each jurisdiction has in common, to bring about this happy state of affairs.The result is quite surprising for two countries which sit at the top of the table for promoting free markets and other capitalist ideals of small government.All land in Hong Kong is owned by the government, who makes it available for use by lease in return for a Government Rent, while Singapore now controls over half of its land area, as well as significant stakes in its strategic industries, which deliver a steady stream of unconventional income. Although in Hong Kong this situation has developed almost by accident, Purves suggests that here lies a model for generating public revenue that could be adopted in other countries to allow a shift in taxation from production and consumption to the Economic Rent of land, as advocated by Adam Smith over two hundred years ago.As a businessman in London, Andrew Purves, is keenly aware of the damaging impact of current taxation on economic activity.
Download or read book National Defense Migration written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 2264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organic Farming And The Participation Of Women written by Kanthalakshmi Chandramouli and published by Pustaka Digital Media. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was widely received and in the process I gained a deep knowledge of agriculture, farmers, their hard work, their scientific knowledge combined with an ancient wisdom which is the unique nature of every farmer in India. I am indeed proud to dedicate this book to Dr. AR. Solayappan who is the most sought after Agricultural Scientist not only by the ruling Governments but also by ordinary people, educated highly placed people, IT sector youngsters, who seek advice from him on Organic Farming.
Download or read book Urban Economics written by John M. Hartwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook offers a rigorous, calculus based presentation of the complexities of urban economics, which is suitable for students who are new to the subject. It focuses on structural details and explains the elements that make cities such highly productive entities, and also explores explores the mechanisms of labour productivity enhancement that are unique to cities. Written with a focus on location theory, key topics include: How cities are arranged; Housing prices; Urban transportation; Why some cities grow rapidly whilst others decline; How wages adjust to local costs of living; How suburbs function in relationship to the urban core; Public finance. This book will be essential reading for Urban Economics courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Download or read book Energy Conservation and Jobs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agricultural Labourer written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Labour and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counting Bounty written by Jeffery Johnson Smith and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much do we spend on the nature we use? Answer that and you'll know the size of your commonwealth and the coming phase of the economy. Most economists bundle land with capital or leave out land and its rent altogether—and cripple their discipline. "Geonomists", OTOH, forecast the last recession to the exact quarter. Counting Bounty highlights a widespread blindspot. Most of us overlook land and its power to twist an economy. Householders typically spend most of their budget on land —beneath their homes and within every purchase like food—without awareness. Tallying rent, this work fills in those blindspots with insights society needs to know. It's not possible to do economics without getting politics all over you. The story begins with the official and academic efforts to minimize the total worth of Earth in America. A perusal of the historical relationship between the elite and the intellectual shows that paying the piper, calling the tune, is the norm, even up to the present. Using a slew of statistics and others' research findings, I track rent to its recipients, to the rentiers who own much and wield much power. The cited sources give the story more legs to stand on than a centipede. Aware reformers can address pressing problems by tapping land value. Towns in Pennsylvania infill instead of sprawl; efficient land use conserves energy. Pittsburgh spurs urban renewal sans subsidy; cities are cash starved. Once towns in Australia experienced factory openings ... during a recession! Aspen Colorado and Hong Kong build affordable housing, narrowing inequality. Alaska and Singapore pay residents a dividend, freeing some to drop out of the rat race. Watching rent flow sheds light on how economies operate, why they sometimes fail, and what a society can do about it. As critical issues reach a tipping point, the problems that misdirecting rent causes, redirecting rent can solve. Drawing attention to the grand total for rent by itself raises the possibility of redirecting
Download or read book Thirty Years of Silence written by Elise McGhee and published by Elise Mcghee. This book was released on 2012-04-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Poverty in the Global South written by Diana Mitlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is compounded by the lack of voice and influence that low income groups have in these official spheres.
Download or read book Industrial Relations written by United States. Commission on Industrial Relations and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digital Feudalism written by David Arditi and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Feudalism explores this new moment in capitalism, and how reliant global economies have become on these processes of consumption, work, and debt.
Download or read book BILLY IT S TIME written by Michael P Buckley and published by Michael P Buckley. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy has been out of work for a long time. Hunger drives Billy and Travis to pack up and move. Unemployment is at 50 percent, governments can no longer pay their police departments. Criminals have taken the law into their own hands. They form a brotherhood with the Cherokee. That is the only thing that can save them. Word count 15,355
Download or read book Our Land Our Oil written by Stefano Casertano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefano Casertano explores the connections between the presence of energy natural resources and the development of "local nationalism" in the producing regions. In particular, he applies a specific focus on those cases where such nationalism leads to secession attempts. The research is based on eight case studies in Bolivia, Sudan, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Iran, Angola, and Nigeria.
