Join us for this interactive lecture series on George’s campaign for the tax to end all other taxes.
Within less than two years of launching his weekly newspaper, The Standard, Henry George began an ambitious campaign to replace state-wide enforcement of the single tax with a uniform national single tax governed by Congress. This course chronicles that national movement from its inception until after the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913, when the national movement for a land value income tax (LVIT) should’ve resumed after a major setback at the Supreme Court in 1895, but never did.
The instructor, Richard DiMare, is a graduate of Boston College and the Massachusetts School of Law and has been a licensed Massachusetts attorney since 2006. He is interested in only one area of law; that which helps wage-earners, both white and blue-collar, to claim a property right in their wages. Thus begins the long-overdue process of shifting the tax burden away from wages and onto unearned incomes and large estates. Richard’s interest in this area of law developed from his experience in the commercial fishing and seafood industries, where he witnessed the cycle of many workers fighting for survival wages and then being taxed on those wages, while passive receivers of unearned incomes were increasingly under-taxed, or not taxed at all.
Dates: Wednesdays: 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27