Comments on: More on stability and effectiveness

By: Kevyn

Kevyn — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:38:23 +0000

jh,

http://petroltax.blog.net.nz/

Regards Kevyn

By: jh

jh — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:51:39 +0000

“Georgism, named after Henry George (1839-1897), a U.S. political economist, is a philosophy and economic ideology that follows from the belief that everyone owns what they create, but everything supplied by nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity.”

In Aotearoa they would belong to Tangata whenua?

By: jh

jh — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:42:08 +0000

Pan Party Policy Wiki…. to educate and organise political and economic ideas
Must retain objectivity.

By: jh

jh — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:33:32 +0000

What’s the link to your blog Kevyn>

By: pingpong

pingpong — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:43:12 +0000

Very interesting paper, Kevyn. Anything to stop motorists parking on bus stops (and footpaths)!

By: Kevyn

Kevyn — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:49:00 +0000

Sleepy, I just read an interesting paper that proposes using parking meters as a form of Georgian (Henry George) Land Tax that would help reduce inner city congestion and pollution.
http://www.uctc.net/papers/728.pdf

By: Kevyn

Kevyn — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:29:14 +0000

Another more environmentally friendly way of paying for roads was proposed by Natonal’s Roading Advisory Group. GPS based electronic tolling has several benefits over RUCs and fuel taxes.

1) The cost of road capacity in excess of two lanes can be charged entirely to those road users who travel at the times when the extra capacity is actually needed.

2) Road users will receive a monthly bill instead of srip feeding their payments. This is a huge psychological change. It means the cost of road use can be directly compared with the cost of a monthly bus pass.

3) Many expenses which are currently charged on an annual basis could be converted to a per km basis. For instance registration fees, insurance.

4) Kerbside parking would be viable anywhere with demand sensitive pricing. That would go along way towards getting kids walking or cycling to school. It would also remove the “free” parking used by shop assistants and office workers in residential streets bordering commercial centres.

This method of collecting parking revenue would make it administratively simple to allocate the parking revenue to the streets from which the revenue is derived. This money could be used to replace asphalt with cooler textured concrete and install benches, planters, trees and more pedestians crossings and refuges and traffic calming features.

“Turning Small Change Into Big Changes” explains how this approach to parking meters was key to revitalising Old Pasadena and contrasts Old Pasadena with Westwood Village.
http://www.uctc.net/access/23/Access%2023%20-%2002%20-%20Small%20Chang e%20into%20Big%20Change.pdf

By: Kevyn

Kevyn — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:30:07 +0000

Sleepy,

I think we may have dabbled with something along those lines in this country when Seddon was Premier:

http://www.petroltax.org.nz/PDF/MastertonBoroughBettermentAct1902.PDF

Sorry, my laptop wont run the Acrobat text conversion tool so this is a straight scan image, a bit of a big file, but it’s only a short Act at 4 pages.

By: SleepyTreehugger

SleepyTreehugger — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:59:53 +0000

I made such a recommendation on Kevyn’s blog on alternative means to fund our transport infrastructure.

The Vice Chairman of Transport for London made such a submission here.
http://sustento.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/transport-urban-spra wl-and-justice.pdf

Even the Chairman of the Reserve Bank is proposing a Georgian (Henry George) Land Tax!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4258411a13.html

By: stuey

stuey — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:08:11 +0000

more on Google announcement and useful roundup of green computing and post peak computing
http://www.energybulletin.net/37920.html