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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 15h

The capitalist vs. worker dichotomy is false. It's land vs. everything else. Returns to housing (mostly land) have been going up, while returns to capital (excluding housing) and labour have been going down.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 15h

The case for Land Value Tax is simple: replace anti-productive taxes on income and effort with a smarter system. Stop taxing what we want more of (work and building) and start taxing what we can't make more of (land).

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 16h

The idea of basic income first began as a common wealth dividend — a way to share the value of land, which no individual created. It's also how we share the proceeds of AIs trained on humanity's work.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 18h

City council looks to land value tax to cut costs and drive growth.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 19h

A Universal Land Dividend (UBI funded by land rents) could leave 80% of Canadian households and 70% of UK households with more income, while addressing the housing crisis. If you support UBI or LVT, here's why they're even better together:

Slide titled “Universal Land Dividends: Why Land Value Tax and a Universal Basic Income are better together,” over tents by f

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 20h

To make number go down, number must go down Somehow, this simple truth has been lost in the public discourse. So many politicians say they want affordability, without saying how to bring down prices. But definition that's not possible.

Jon Shell post: "To make housing affordable, prices need to go down… until politically acceptable."

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 23h

One of Canada's top thinkers on land says the hard truth about housing "We cannot build our way to true affordability, unless we capture that unearned increase in land value and use it for the common good" - Martin Adams, author of Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Canada and the provinces should follow Alaska's oil dividend model of paying citizens a common income from common wealth.

Common Wealth Canada graphic: Jay Hammond quote on Alaska resource dividend and collective ownership, sharing returns equally

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wharton Finance Professor said Pittsburgh is the only city that grew among 30+ cities because they had land value tax instead of property tax. "The thing discouraging growth—taxes on structures—was gone... and all new revenues came from tax on land which couldn't move."

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Local governments should see LVT as a way to recoup public investment dollars — "a free tax revenue card" — that doesn't harm the economy. We could have more public transit that pays for itself from the land value it creates in the first place.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Paradoxically, homelessness is at its worst in precisely those places where incomes and amenities are at their best... Homelessness thrives in places with exorbitant land rents, so solutions to homelessness should be funded by a tax on land values." — Schalkenbach Foundation

Slide titled “In a good economy, homelessness goes up”: The Paradox of Progress and Poverty, over tents on a city sidewalk.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Our economy today more closely resembles feudalism, rather than a truly capitalist system that rewards productivity and hard work. The housing crisis is the most visible symptom of this disease.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A majority polled in the US support a sovereign wealth fund that gives the public a stake in AI. This is a no-brainer and the best path to UBI as an AI dividend.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Basic Income? How about Common Wealth Dividends. One helps those in need, like low-income and seniors benefits, and the other is a payment for things that belong to everyone, like carbon and natural resource dividends. They solve different problems, and we need both.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

People make more holding land than working But somehow we still tax work way more than unearned land gains Until we fix this, this gap will only continue to widen Literally 0 coverage by media and politicians

Canadian Press/StatsCan graphic: Canada’s income gap at record high, with chart of household net saving by income quintile.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The key to stability in a Post-Labour Economy is simple: Share the wealth generated by machines as humanity's common wealth

Portrait of Dalibor Petrovic with quote: AI and automation will push society toward a post-labour economy requiring UBI.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Texas has heavy taxes on land and none on income The result: you keep more from work and creating value, not from extracting it "It makes property less expensive...prevents you using it as an extractive store of wealth" — UK ad exec Rory Sutherland

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You didn't build the transit line, the parks, the schools or the hospitals near your property. The public did. A land value tax simply returns some of that value to the people who created it.

MoneyWeek text on land value tax popularity. Highlights note broad support and taxing the unproductive rich, not productive w

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Land is also the only form of wealth that directly impacts your cost of living.

Tweet argues land value tax achieves goals of wealth tax without economic inefficiency, referencing debate between policies

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One of the few very visible Canadians shedding light on the hard truth about housing. UBC's Dr. Paul Kershaw, founder of Generation Squeeze "We cannot reward housing speculation with tax breaks without expecting home values to outpace local earnings."

Screenshot of Globe and Mail article titled “Building more homes alone won’t fix affordability” by Paul Kershaw

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Taxing income and consumption is more damaging to our economy than taxing land.

Common Wealth Canada graphic citing OECD paper: corporate taxes most harmful to growth; recurrent property taxes (land) least

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dr. Paul Kershaw (UBC & Generation Squeeze) says Canada's housing policy has avoided hard truths "Housing insecurity finances housing wealth gained by older generations" "We aren't gonna fix housing without an honest conversation... Do we want [home prices] to rise, stall, or fall?"

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

BC residents aren't buying the idea that housing policy works. That is a mandate to think bigger - beyond pretending we can build our way out of this crisis.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Canada's National Advisory Council on Poverty calls on the feds to prioritize non-market housing. The unspoken truth here: a market geared towards homes as investments will never deliver affordability.

Recommendation 2: prioritize non-market housing to support affordable not-for-profit homes, not investment properties.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

People talk about wealth inequality and wealth tax, but leave out the largest category of wealth (by far): land. It's both the #1 driver of net worths and poverty.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We're taxing what people do earn from work MORE than what people don't earn from land. It's the opposite of what we should do and what's driving the housing crisis and poverty.

Tweet about land value tax with chart comparing % kept after inheritance, retirement, dividends, and work.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Land value tax polled better than the status quo in BC. Maybe because the status quo is working great for property owner windfalls, and not much else, while we overtax income. When land values rise because of public investment, the public should get some of that value back.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"As an owner of several properties myself, I believe home prices need to come down. For the sake of the next generation and our country's future." — Common Wealth Canada founder @floydmarinescu.bsky.social

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And the case for lower taxes on income, buildings, and productive investment is overwhelming.

Common Wealth Canada graphic: Martin Wolf quote says land value tax case is overwhelming, efficient and morally just.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sharing common wealth could build us the future we want.

Common Wealth Canada graphic of Jeff Smith with quote on sharing commonwealth, taxing economic rent, and paying dividends.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Our property tax system punishes building. Let's replace it with LVT.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Land value is publicly created. Taking some of that to pay us dividends gives everyone a stake in the success of our economy.

Common Wealth Canada graphic: Stephen Hoskins quote says land value tax shares dividends and reduces speculation; portrait of

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

wealth tax? just tax land it's what makes life expensive not stocks, gold, or yachts

Book chart: UK average net property wealth by percentile, showing huge spike for top 1%.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Common Wealth Canada propose that collecting value from Canada's land and resources would create $241B of wealth annually that could be distributed to Canadians... enough to provide each adult with up to $7,600 per year in dividends." — Robert Schalkenbach Foundation

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We should be collecting rent arising from the value of nature to pay us dividends or replace taxes on incomes, productive investments, and homes.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Famed economist Mariana Mazzucato says we should pay citizen's dividends from co-created wealth, like nature and publicly-funded technologies. "How do we make sure that we're not just socializing risks but also socializing rewards?"

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BC has "the best land assessment authority in North America for Georgist reasons... that gets you top marks". — Prof. Francis K. Peddle Early BC mayors like L.D. Taylor supported taxing land over productivity. This should be mainstream politics again.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our common wealth is being plundered at scale without compensation. This includes the value of land and natural resources. It's time we reclaimed it to pay us common dividends.

Common Wealth Canada graphic of Guy Standing with quote urging to take back the commons and compensate 'we, the people'.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good for capitalism: reward productivity (tax incomes and buildings less) Bad for capitalism: reward holding stuff (land) waiting for prices to go up

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In Canada, real estate (60-90% land value) is by far the #1 source of rising net worths. It's not even close. To restore the link between work and wealth, The Economist Editorial Board says build more housing and tax land value. We need leaders who will heed this call.

The Economist headline: “Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working,” with a gold baby pacifier on red cloth.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The property tax reform we need to build a healthier housing market. More and more cities and policymakers are beginning to understand this.

Common Wealth Canada graphic: Alan Cranston quote says higher land taxes and lower improvement taxes tested successfully.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Singapore is an economic miracle. Their visionary founding father understood that because land value is publicly created, it should be publicly shared. Tax land, instead of workers/businesses.

Lee Kuan Yew portrait beside quote criticizing private profit from publicly created land value.

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Across North America, cities are learning that we shouldn't tax building more than passively getting rich from land. Tax land, not productivity. "The YIMBYS are starting to realize that upzoning isn't enough...It doesn't disrupt the mechanisms of speculating."

Headline on Spokane property tax reform: 'Everybody works but the empty lot' above a public parking lot.

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