Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
Yesterday’s post followed banking’s Wild Geese – the former Lehman traders, bankers, and salesmen, profiled in a recent New York Times article, whose lives exploded when their firm did.
Three of Lehman’s Wild Geese: unemployed Gelber, gentlemen of leisure Linton, plugger Ollquist
Like the dispersed Irish mercenaries, they are defined [...]
By: David A. Smith
O the Wild Geese are flying, O the Wild Geese are flying.
We’ve built your canals and railroads, our buildings reach the sky
– “The Wild Geese,” by Mike Harding
In 1691, after the Williamite Army crushed the Irish Jacobite army in the Battle of the Boyne, their army was allowed to disperse. They took [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
So there I was, mid-May in Dublin at the Foundation for Fiscal Studies’ 24th annual gathering, The Fiscal Treatment of Property, expanding on the topic Lessons from the United States and explaining US real estate taxation to a roomful of tax wonks.
Class, can you say ‘locally autonomous control’?
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What if you woke up one morning and local property taxes has been abolished?
No real estate tax escrows collected by your mortgagee.
No assessments, no city assessors.
Before you smile too broadly, I have to mention some other George-Spiggott-inspired conditions of the scenario:
I want only your immortal soul
No local autonomy on schools, police, fire, health. All [...]
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