gettysburg address
... They were debating tax yesterday morning: reduce the standard rate by 4p, cane the rich, but even that didn't excite them. They talked about VED, LIT, LVT and SVR, and everyone in the hall knew what they meant. But nobody even murmured, still less chanted, "What do we want? Site value rating! When do we want it? As soon as circumstances make it advisable!"
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
ALBANY ― Albany Civic Center Director John Mazzola outlined plans to incorporate updated rates at the facility and create a better rate of recovery on tax money spent in what City Manager Alfred Lott jokingly referred to as Mazzola's "Gettysburg Address on the civic center" during an Albany City Commission work session Tuesday morning.... They were debating tax yesterday morning: reduce the standard rate by 4p, cane the rich, but even that didn't excite them. They talked about VED, LIT, LVT and SVR, and everyone in the hall knew what they meant. But nobody even murmured, still less chanted, "What do we want? Site value rating! When do we want it? As soon as circumstances make it advisable!"
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The Albany community would not have been the first to chant: 'We want Site Value Rating!' That would have been New Plymouth NZ, in 1855, or Vic, Aust 1901, or in other community campaigns in Denmark, Sth Africa, Taiwan, or Pittsburgh, USA, etc. Not withstanding Eccles.5:9
With global asset price write-downs announced in the tens of billions of dollars for Q4 to the point of where global hedge fund driven land-market speculative bubbles are bursting, it is a fascinating social phenomena of political, economic & media ineptness (having no skill) to see such scant attention to SVR, the most equitable base of public revenue possible.
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