To End Deficits, Allow Localities to Raise Property Taxes

In Higher Taxes Wouldn’t End Some Deficits (Jan 20) the New York Times reported how a few state governors have timidly proposed small income tax increases. There’s a better alternative: undo the legal shackles that keep residents of towns or school districts from voting themselves higher property taxes.

Property taxes are wealth taxes, intrinsically more . . . → Read More: To End Deficits, Allow Localities to Raise Property Taxes

To Save Essential Public Services, Restore the Original Wealth Tax!

State and local officials propose drastic cuts in public services. There’s an alternative: restore the property tax. It’s the oldest wealth tax of all, the tax that financed Chinese civilization over 2000 years ago, the tax that until World War II financed most of government in the USA.

The property tax? Our most hated tax? . . . → Read More: To Save Essential Public Services, Restore the Original Wealth Tax!