Land Value Tax Live From Rochester
Upstate New York has been in a steep decline for decades. New state tax burdens will not help in competitive and recessionary environment. Land value tax will make a foray into the Mohawk Valley, Wednesday April 8 2009
As noted in the Rochester City Newspaper, UrbanTools director Joshua Vincent will speak before a group of concerned leaders and citizens. there have been quesitons raised about the idea of land value taxation as being "too radical." In a town that taxes the few businesses left at a rate much higher than residential parcels, is losing population fast and has reached for dozens of failed nostrums in the past, it's hard to see how a program used successfully in many Pennsylvania cities, and hundreds around the world could be conceived as radical in the context.
What Rochester needs is a new way of looking at how it does business or the future will be the present, which is a reflection of the recent past. No one wants that in upstate New York.
