The 1909 Group

Hat tip to US Georgist tax researcher "Taxpayer" who highlights that Fred Harrison has made a seven or so minute introduction/video advert for his book "Ricardo's Law: House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback Scam"

If you want to understand a bit about just how unfair a tax system based on incomes is, have a watch, and hopefully buy the book - it goes into a lot more detail and will leave you I am sure convinced of the place of LVT.

Progress and Poverty author: Henry George rating: asin: 0911312986 binding: Paperback list price: £9.95 GBP amazon price: £9.95 GBP

Progress and Poverty by Henry George (2007 edition edited and abridged by Bob Drake) is published in paperback by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation available from Amazon.

Outlining a few small changes to make the site easier to use.

We are hoping to get an initial meeting together at the Green Lib Dems' conference in Oxford over the weekend of 9th-10th June, 2007.

GLD are key potential partners in The 1909 Group, as with its emphasis on Land Value Tax and exploration of other economic issues such as monetary monopoly, we can promote key aspects of modern "green economics" - the idea of "Sustainable Abundance".  read more »

Jock Coats offers a personal view of what might be "core beliefs" of The 1909 Group. There's nothing fixed about this; just one opinion, so feel free to register, login and comment or start a topic in the forums to develop what could become a "statement of beliefs".

A brief introduction to who we are, who we want to involve and why we believe the time is ripe for a group such as The 1909 Group.

Just under two years' from now sees the centenary of Lloyd-George's 1909 "People's Budget" that many regard as the launch pad of the Welfare State and the Liberal Reform agenda. Lib Dem campaign group ALTER (Action on Land Taxation and Economic Reform) is calling for a party-wide celebration of that centenary and a re-examination of some of the key issues that were left as "Unfinished Business" in the constitutional upheavals wrought by that government's radical liberal economic and social agenda.