“The Law of Rent demonstrates that no single human being gives land and location its overall value - its rent. Land values… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“The equal and sustainable right of access to the Earth's bounty seems one of the most transcendent truths a human being can… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“If we look deeply at life, we realise that the benefits we receive from society are largely attributable to their location. Benefits… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Most of all, community land contributions are both ethical and economically fair because they allow people to keep the fruits of their… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Progressive taxes are inherently flawed in that they fund public services which are often location-dependent, thus adding to the value of owned… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“We may wonder how the ability to profit from land fosters social dysfunction, but once we realize the extent to which community… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Economists Mason Gaffney and Fred Harrison claim in their work The Corruption of Economics that industrialists toward the end of the 19th… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Given our current system of property ownership, it makes sense that we would see greater wealth inequality in places where there's greater… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“In our current distorted reality, land is often held speculatively without being put to productive use. Because people are able to profit… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“We've come to understand that all land not explicitly designated for public use is privately owned, regardless of whether it's put to… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Property taxes - particularly those which tax only or primarily the land and not the improvements - are the closest approximations we… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Markets are free when human beings have equal opportunities to influence the production and trade of desirable goods and services... Some people… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Since people can only be paid for their goods and services or extract rent from society, less income is available to service… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“What causes recessions? Many economists talk about the need for a consumer economy, but we can't have a consumer economy if people… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Tax systems are essentially the mechanisms by which societies decide what people have to share with each other versus what they can… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Land ownership is an entry monopoly: Land is naturally scarce for each location since its supply can't be increased... When people buy… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“As long as people and institutions are allowed to profit from land at the expense of other people, we're enabling a system… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Fred Harrison claimed in his book Ricardo's Law: House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback System that property owners are generally able… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“It's important to distinguish the value of raw land from the value of improvements made to land. Land values are socially generated… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“One way for communities to create affordable housing is for local communities to adopt land-use rights. Local governments or community land trusts… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“In theory, capitalism is an economic system that allows people to freely trade goods and services in a competitive free market. But… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Whenever land is bought and sold, three stakeholders automatically vie for a cut from the revenue that can be had from land:… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Human beings need land even more so than they need money; the monopoly of land - not the monopoly of money -… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“In order for our land contribution model to be complete, we have to consider two more aspects of affordable housing. First, we… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Our inability to share the gifts of nature causes much suffering in the world today... We mistakenly believe that a free market… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root," Henry David Thoreau famously… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“Fred Harrison explains in The Power in the Land how land values over time become so expensive that too little wealth is… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“How can we share the gifts of nature? By sharing the monetary value that human beings assign to nature. The fundamental thing… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
