A national consensus fully endorsing the strategic value of the tax ... AGREE

Why it is so obvious that …

IMPROVEMENTS

Should Be Taxed Much Less

And

LAND VALUES

Should Be Taxed Much More

Excerpted from the consensus of a Conference on the Financial Crisis of our Cities, worked out by the representative leaders from:

National League Of Cities, U.S. Conference of Mayors, National Association of Counties, Council of State Governments, National Governors' Conference Committee on Economic Development, Advocacy Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, National Commission on Urban Problems, Ford Foundation, Chamber of Commerce of the U.S., The Conference Board, National Association of Manufacturers, National Housing Center, Regional Plan Association, New York Economic Development Council, Small Business Administration, Tax Foundation.

The conference was sponsored by the first five of these organizations in cooperation with Time and Fortune and the Robert Schalkenback Foundation, New York. The full text of the Consensus was published in March, 1969 in Nation's Cities, the magazine of the National League of Cities, Washington, DC.