How I Came to Embrace the Principles
Embraced by Henry George

Bryan Kavanagh

[2009]

Progress and Poverty did it for me. Just as I finished my Valuations qualification at RMIT in the early 1970s, I saw this quaint little shop in Hardware Street Melbourne. It said something about land tax in the window. Land tax? What would this mob know about land tax, I thought. I was directed to P&P and bought a copy. Started reading it on the way home in the train. Read it thru the night. Couldn't wait to read it at lunchtime in the Australian Taxation Office where I worked as a valuer. Finished it that night. Floored, I was; absoluted floored. Yet, I've seen people read it and remain unconvinced and unaffected. It's a case of 'horses for courses', I s'pose.