The research
Everything behind the campaign page, in the open: the mechanism, the moral case, the objections we steelmanned against ourselves (including five published self-corrections), and every analysis with its data trail.
Foundations
- The package (v0.1 draft)
- The proposal
- Mechanism spec
- The moral case
- A negative income tax for land
- What is a threshold negative wealth tax?
- Objections, steelmanned
- Narrative kit
- The academic path
- Open decisions (Floyd's desk)
Analyses
- Canada estimate
- Who pays: household incidence
- The regional cut
- Vancouver land share (measured)
- BC: 159 municipalities
- Victoria land share (measured)
- Surrey land share (measured)
- The BC open-data sweep (28 municipalities)
- Sherbrooke land share (measured)
- Montreal land share (measured)
- The Quebec cluster: Laval, Gatineau, Quebec City
- The container question
- Who counts: the three population bases, priced
- The clawback threat: tax & benefit treatment
- The transition path
- The farm cut
- Resource rents: flows vs stock
- Assessment readiness map
- Q5 specified: is the BC-Quebec gap real?
- Q5/T1 pilot: the vacant-lot test (Sherbrooke)
- Q5/T1 pilot, BC side (Surrey)
- Prior art: who got here first
- Political viability: why land taxes die