Another big week for @pandpinst.bsky.social! I'm off to @strongtowns.org National Gathering to talk to everyone and anyone about land value tax! And @georgiststeve.bsky.social is in Maine to share analysis of the state's property taxes with a state legislature committee!

I see there is growth vs degrowth discourse happening again, and I'd like to again suggest that Georgism cuts that Gordian Knot. Georgism recognizes the finitude of natural resources and says, "You may use them IF you compensate current and future generations for their loss"

Maine is beautiful in the spring

Well if the garage isn't for sale why did you put that big sign up?

FWIW I largely endorse this. LVT is better than traditional property taxes, but property taxes are significantly better than all the rest. One of the most impactful things Georgists can be doing right now is defending the valor of the property tax against slopulists of both blue and red varieties.

Fuck you, Jared Polis.

Me: democracy doesn't work if you don't disenfranchise the anti-democratic. Democratic Governor Jared Polis: you mean like setting them free?

Tolerance doesn't work if you don't disempower the intolerant. Democracy doesn't work if you don't disenfranchise the anti-democratic. Free speech doesn't work if you don't discredit the liars.

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One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

California, Illinois, New York, Colorado, Maryland, Oregon, and New Jersey should wipe every single Republican in their congressional delegations. The rules are whatever Republicans can get away with. We can win or play fair, I know which one I’m picking.

good evening, "Marin County" was a 25 month sociological study conducted by harvard university. we are now complete with our study. thank you for your time.

When I was back in NZ, people asked me "are people really going along with Trump?!" and my reply was: - ⅓ hate him with every fibre (you are here) - ⅓ vote on vibes and are getting sick of the constant chaos - ⅓ are irredeemable deplorables incompatible with a free society Proof is in the pudding:

They're not called Rhinestones unless they come from the Rhine region of France, otherwise they're just sparkling stones.

Fantastic article exploring different categories of Rent. IMO the beating heart of leftish political goals should be the elimination of Rents (AKA Georgism).

Cities are good for humans and Democrats should say so with their full chest.

the best way for California to tax the rich is to simply abolish prop 13

The Republican Party would like you to believe that they deplore political violence yet their official view of the 2nd Amendment is that any effort to enact gun control is an assault on their inalienable right to shoot government officials they deem too dangerous to the republic.

mfw a NIMBY says NIMBY shit

guy who is so xenophobic he resurrects USAID and triples its budget

Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.

Note: the claim below was not true during the Open Frontier period. Equitable access to natural resources (opportunity) helps prevent scarcity mindset, malthusianism, nativism and social darwinism! To learn more, read George.

Years ago I was skeptical of the idea of rape culture. But then we elected a rapist and the billionaire Epstein people all rape and then a lot of members of Congress rape too and I think perhaps it's a culture of rape.

Extremely excited to troll my theocratic Trump-sympathizing uncle with this when I see him next week. If he can't bring himself to condemn it, I genuinely might call him a cuck.

JESUS CHRIST IS WEAK ON PROSTITUTION

Visiting New Zealand this week and the #1 question I'm being asked about US politics is "why aren't Congress doing something to stop him?!"

Florence Nightingale is WEAK on upzoning!!!

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

When we're right, we're right.

It actually feels so good to see someone else live my dream.

America is such an awe-inspiring place, I wish its leaders weren't pure evil.

White nationalists love to post crime statistics to make the (flawed, obviously) case that black people are dangerous. POTUS just posted video of a single murder by an Haitian immigrant, to make the case for deporting all Haitians. Trump is somehow more racist, stupid & evil than a typical ynat.

My "I was not an Epstein victim" speech has got people asking a lot of questions already answered by my speech

"Did your friends attempt to negotiate a peace?" "He refused to apologize, we had to let the ceasefire cease!"

when someone says we should abolish property taxes:

she hor on my muz until i'm strait

We hebben een serieus Naziprobleem

Homeownership is an especially shit way to encourage retirement saving because homeowning retirees do everything they can to avoid drawing down their equity. So they underspend during retirement, overconsume housing that young families need, and then leave it to their kids (a petite aristocracy).

Put this in the Library of Congress. It has everything: * "The Marina is for Everybody" right next to "No Tower!" * The race-baiting of "Dubai by the Bay" * Lib/Progs turning on a brand they liked because it tried to build housing in their neighborhood * Most of them being white boomers

she alonso on my muth till i mills

Kitsap County WA says NO KINGS NO TRAITORS NO NAZIS

The nuisance legal appeal that delayed an affordable housing project in my community has been thrown out wholesale by the Hearing Examiner. This has made my haters very mad which, by the transitive property, makes me very happy.

Bruh. > Replacing the wage tax with a non-distortionary land value tax would bring 26,000 jobs from the suburbs into Philadelphia. Such gains triple when we allow for productivity agglomeration forces. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If developers always build up to the maximum (density, height, etc.) that’s allowed in your city, that’s a sign that your zoning rules are substantially restricting housing supply.

Nice empirical data how upzoning works to reduce prices. By reducing the cost of the land component of housing. Also a good explanation of why one can’t take the observations from upzoning a single parcel and think they work the same for broad upzoning (a fallacy also known as Condonomics).

For those paying attention, this new paper out of Auckland (hi mum!) puts Patrick Condon's silly diagram out to pasture. Turns out that housing demand isn't actually perfectly elastic. Who knew?!

Land value is publicly created. Taking some of that to pay us dividends gives everyone a stake in the success of our economy.

Check out my talk below where I draw the intense parallels between today's political crises and the Gilded Age crises that motivated Henry George. I argue that much of the current loss of faith in the American Dream originates in the closing of the (suburban) frontier. Quietly proud of this one!