Taxes on human-produced things raise prices and reduce incomes.  Income taxes make up approximately 40% of all U.S. taxes and may be the best of all the taxes on human-produced things, but they also discourage the production of wealth, thereby creating poverty.  Don't  tax jobs (or tax things produced by jobs, which has the same economic effect).

Our tax system creates poverty, and then we spend billions subsidizing poverty in order to get rid of it.  If that isn’t perverse, what is? 

But are taxes on human-produced things really necessary?  No, because there is another source of government revenue that can abolish the root cause of poverty while simultaneously providing the government with the revenue it needs.  Shouldn’t we have Equal Access to the Resources of Nature (E.A.R.N.) and isn’t land necessary for that access?  Shouldn’t that access be equal for all? 

Practicality requires the private ownership of land, but then let us collect the annual rent of land in taxation instead of taxing human- produced things (note that land isn’t human-produced).  By tax- burdening the production of wealth, non-land-value taxes actually create poverty!  

Such taxes are passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices that poor people have to pay.  They make it more expensive to be poor.  Subsidizing poverty with government programs or private charity is not a good way to lessen poverty. 

But once we fund those programs with E.A.R.N. (via land-assessment taxation) we will get at the root cause of poverty.  And then, consider terrorism - E.A.R.N. would create the economic opportunities that could be a viable alternative to blind terrorism.  We will never end terrorism unless the terror-breeding societies end the hopeless grinding poverty from which it springs.    

A land-assessment tax has other benefits too numerous to be mentioned here.  But for now, just imagine a society without taxes on human production but with full government services!  If in such a society, every land-site were used efficiently, wouldn't poverty and terrorism disappear?   Are you helping to make that possible, or are your charitable donations fruitlessly subsidizing the poverty and policies that breed terrorism?

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But now for a downside: the movement for land value taxation is stalled for lack of funds.  It is threatened with extinction.  This website is funded with the veritable shoestring.  The Center for a Better Economy, which sponsors it, needs your financial help and guidance.   

Many effective programs desperately need to be funded to bring this basic reform to the attention of the general public and their public officials.  Will you help us do this?     

Trying to combat poverty and terrorism without removing their root cause is like trying to drain the ocean with a teacup.  But the approach advocated in this website needs advice, and frankly, funds.  

In particular, what is needed right now is adequate funding for an advertising campaign that can bring this proposal to the attention of the public and its political officials.  They shouldn't be kept in the dark about land value taxation any longer. 

Poverty and the fear of unemployment is at the root of all social problems.  There is nothing more basic than their eradication, yet it can be accomplished only by private landownership coupled with equal access to the earth - to God’s gift to us all.  Be effective.  Make your donations count.  Let us hear from you..      

Help us really end (not merely subsidize) poverty.