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- Proposal text
-The GPC recognizes nature as the equal birthright of all people.-Therefore, the GPC will replace taxes on beneficial economic activity with taxes which compensate-the public for occupation, use, and degradation of the public's natural resources (also known as-rent capture), including land and ecosystems.- Type of Proposal
- Public policy that the party would represent
- Objective / Benefit
- Conventional land law has created a vicious cycle of worsening inequality as landowners collect rent
- which they don't create, which empowers them to buy even more land, thus concentrating ever more
- land in ever fewer hands. This could be fixed by capturing rent and redistributing it to society.
- Furthermore, most existing taxes - like income, business, and sales taxes - inhibit beneficial
- economic activity.
- After replacing those taxes with taxes on land, natural resources, and pollution, more wealth will
- be produced using less land, fewer natural resources, and less pollution.
- It all starts with declaring that Earth is humanity's common wealth.
- If your proposal replaces an existing policy or policies, which one does it replace?
- The first four paragraphs of G10-P002 Green Tax Reform. To replace the fifth paragraph of G10-P002,
- see Financial Incentives for Ecological Restoration:
- gid://decidim-app/Decidim::Proposals::Proposal/3960
- List any supporting evidence for your proposal
- 🔰Common Wealth Canada, an organization which advocates for these policies:
- https://www.commonwealth.ca/ (External link)
- 🔰Projected benefits of this tax shift in the EU, including increased employment and reduced carbon
- emissions - https://ex-tax.com/taxshift/ (External link)
- 🔰"How Low Taxes Lead To High Home Prices In Vancouver, BC: And how taxing land value can cool
- speculation and unlock affordability" -
- https://www.sightline.org/2022/05/09/how-low-taxes-lead-to-high-home-prices-in-vancouver-bc/
- (External link)
- 🔰Other Green and environmentalist organizations' existing endorsements of similar ideas -
- https://commonground-usa.net/14320-2/ (External link)
- 🔰"Post-Corona balanced budget fiscal stimulus: The case for shifting taxes onto land" -
- https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/post-corona-balanced-budget-fiscal-stimulus-case-shift
- Henry George Foundation of Canada https://earthsharing.ca/page/about-us
- Does this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the
- group or groups?
- N/A
- Jurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?
- Yes
- Please indicate the language the proposal is being submitted in.
- English
Additions
- Proposal text
- +The Green Party of Canada believes that all people have equal rights to nature.
- +To deliver these rights, a Green government will shift away from conventional taxation. Instead, it
- +will enact resource pricing (like carbon pricing) that minimizes - and compensates the public for -
- +pollution, resource extraction, and land use.
- Type of Proposal
- Public policy that the party would represent
- Objective / Benefit
- Conventional land law has created a vicious cycle of worsening inequality as landowners collect rent
- which they don't create, which empowers them to buy even more land, thus concentrating ever more
- land in ever fewer hands. This could be fixed by capturing rent and redistributing it to society.
- Furthermore, most existing taxes - like income, business, and sales taxes - inhibit beneficial
- economic activity.
- After replacing those taxes with taxes on land, natural resources, and pollution, more wealth will
- be produced using less land, fewer natural resources, and less pollution.
- It all starts with declaring that Earth is humanity's common wealth.
- If your proposal replaces an existing policy or policies, which one does it replace?
- The first four paragraphs of G10-P002 Green Tax Reform. To replace the fifth paragraph of G10-P002,
- see Financial Incentives for Ecological Restoration:
- gid://decidim-app/Decidim::Proposals::Proposal/3960
- List any supporting evidence for your proposal
- 🔰Common Wealth Canada, an organization which advocates for these policies:
- https://www.commonwealth.ca/ (External link)
- 🔰Projected benefits of this tax shift in the EU, including increased employment and reduced carbon
- emissions - https://ex-tax.com/taxshift/ (External link)
- 🔰"How Low Taxes Lead To High Home Prices In Vancouver, BC: And how taxing land value can cool
- speculation and unlock affordability" -
- https://www.sightline.org/2022/05/09/how-low-taxes-lead-to-high-home-prices-in-vancouver-bc/
- (External link)
- 🔰Other Green and environmentalist organizations' existing endorsements of similar ideas -
- https://commonground-usa.net/14320-2/ (External link)
- 🔰"Post-Corona balanced budget fiscal stimulus: The case for shifting taxes onto land" -
- https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/post-corona-balanced-budget-fiscal-stimulus-case-shift
- Henry George Foundation of Canada https://earthsharing.ca/page/about-us
- Does this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the
- group or groups?
- N/A
- Jurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?
- Yes
- Please indicate the language the proposal is being submitted in.
- English
