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This year’s Georgist Conference was in Baltimore, a short train ride from my home in the DC area. On Monday, August 27, 2018, I made the journey. After settling into my hotel room, I went downstairs to where a meeting was taking place; this was not part of the conference, narrowly defined, but “Envisioning Baltimore’s Renaissance: A Charrette.” As I entered, an older black man was speaking; I later learned that he was Clarence Davis, a member of the Maryland General Assembly.
He was saying that he had heard about Henry George from a professor at Morgan State University back in 1966. Decades later, when Mr. Rybeck walked into his office to seek Georgist legislation, he recognized the idea, and said that it was about time to implement George’s thought. Unfortunately, the legislation failed, and lay dormant.
Now, there’s a bottle tax. There’s a proposal to tax goods bought over the Internet. There is a better way! Great thinkers talked about it, but we ignored them.
He mentioned Colonel Rankin’s students, I think pointing out someone else there; if I recall correctly, Delegate Davis himself had gone to high school elsewhere, not with Colonel Rankin. Anyway, Rankin demanded that black students aim high.
And welcome to Baltimore! Mr. Davis told us.
To be continued.
He was saying that he had heard about Henry George from a professor at Morgan State University back in 1966. Decades later, when Mr. Rybeck walked into his office to seek Georgist legislation, he recognized the idea, and said that it was about time to implement George’s thought. Unfortunately, the legislation failed, and lay dormant.
Now, there’s a bottle tax. There’s a proposal to tax goods bought over the Internet. There is a better way! Great thinkers talked about it, but we ignored them.
He mentioned Colonel Rankin’s students, I think pointing out someone else there; if I recall correctly, Delegate Davis himself had gone to high school elsewhere, not with Colonel Rankin. Anyway, Rankin demanded that black students aim high.
And welcome to Baltimore! Mr. Davis told us.
To be continued.
