Your Citizen's Dividend (Anderson eBook)

What It Is

Your Citizen's Dividend: How to double your wage, dramatically reduce financial stress and improve living standards for everyone is a free 16-page advocacy eBook by Phillip J. Anderson (©2024 Property Sharemarket Economics), distributed via his citdiv.org microsite in six languages. It is the program statement behind the site: collect society's economic rent through a special-purpose vehicle (SPV) modeled on the UK Crown Estate, pay it out as a per-capita citizen's dividend, and phase out "all taxes... Every single one" (p. 8). Advocacy source: cited on this wiki to represent Anderson's own position (EDITORIAL source-hierarchy class 6), not as evidence.

The Argument, Chapter by Chapter

1. Government as wealth-extractor (pp. 3–4): a catalogue of state corruption and repression (1MDB, Saudi arrests, Chinese censorship) framing the pitch: "eliminating the need for governments, all taxes and all of our paid politicians is really simple to do" (p. 3).
2. The Domesday lineage (pp. 4–6): William the Conqueror's 1086 survey as history's model rent assessment; London's aristocratic estates (the Grosvenor 500 acres → Mayfair/Belgravia) as the private-capture counterfactual.
3. The Crown Estate as the working model (pp. 7–9): since George III's 1760 surrender of the royal lands, "all of the Crown Estate's Rents are returned to the UK Treasury" (p. 8), with the monarch's ~15% stipend recast by Anderson as history's first "citizen's dividend"; the eBook cites ~£330m collected in 2018.
4. The mechanism claim (pp. 10–12): "All of society's economic and social gains ultimately end up in land value" (p. 10) — an ATCOR-family claim, stated as fact where the wiki's own ATCOR page carries it as contested theory. Illustrations: Churchill's 1909 toll-bridge story (rents on the south bank rose by the amount of the abolished toll — see Churchill's land speeches); Big Issue sellers bidding for high-traffic corners; and the claim that a UBI funded from ordinary taxes "will... simply make the non-landowners and workers even poorer" because it capitalizes into rents (p. 11).
5. Q&A (pp. 13–16): Alaska's PFD (given as US$1,022/yr — a stale figure; see note below), Norway's GPF, Singapore/Temasek as "the special purpose vehicle created specifically for the task of collecting the entire Singapore Rent" (p. 13), Australian arithmetic (ABS total land value ~A$10.7T at March 2024, rent ≈ 5% ≈ A$535B/yr, plus Fitzgerald's resource-rents estimate), and Swiss-style semi-professional parliament as the end-state governance (with the eBook's own correction that Swiss parliamentarians are in fact compensated, p. 16).

Accuracy Notes (T1 scan, 2026-07-06)

• Stale Alaska figure: the PFD is given as "US$1022" per year (p. 13) in a ©2024 edition — verified against the PFD Division's historical payment table (pfd.alaska.gov, "Summary of Dividend Applications & Payments," retrieved 2026-07-10): $1,022.00 is exactly and uniquely the 2016 dividend (2015: $2,072; 2017: $1,100), so the eBook's figure was eight years stale at publication. Recent dividends have been substantially higher (2022: $3,284; 2023: $1,312; 2024: $1,702). The wiki's evidence on dividends lives at resource-rent dividends work.
• The Great Smoky Mountains study (pp. 11–12): the eBook's account of the Cherokee casino-dividend natural experiment (better schooling, less crime, fewer mental-health problems, poorest children benefiting most) matches the direction of the published literature. The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth tracked the Eastern Band of Cherokee before and after 1996 casino per-capita distributions began: the foundational finding is Costello, Compton, Keeler & Angold, "Relationships Between Poverty and Psychopathology: A Natural Experiment," JAMA 290(15) (2003): 2023–2029, and the economics quasi-experiment on income and child outcomes is Akee, Copeland, Keeler, Angold & Costello, "Parents' Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-experiment Using Transfer Payments from Casino Profits," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2(1) (2010): 86–115. A dedicated research page for the dividends outcome remains queued in BACKLOG.
• "No paid politicians" (Switzerland): the eBook corrects its own claim in a footnote — Swiss parliamentarians are compensated (p. 16). Reported here as the eBook states it.
• The housing-shortage aside ("It isn't true," p. 6) contradicts the supply literature the wiki carries (Hilber & Vermeulen; Saiz) — noted as the author's position, unsourced in the eBook.

Why the Wiki Carries It

It is the most explicit popular statement of the SPV/Crown-Estate capture design — rent collection institutionally insulated from politics (Temasek as the exemplar) — which is a genuine design idea in the Geoism instrument space, distinct from tax-code instruments like LVT or the ACE. It also states plainly the advocacy version of claims the wiki carries with evidence gradings elsewhere (ATCOR; UBI-capitalization; the Alaska and Singapore models) — a useful, honest specimen of the persuasive case.

See Also

• Phillip J. Anderson — the author
• Citizen's Dividend · Narrative: A Dividend from Common Wealth
• Resource-rent dividends work — the evidence-graded version
• Sovereign Wealth Fund — the Norway/Temasek instrument family
• ATCOR — the mechanism claim, carried as contested theory

Sources

1. Phillip J. Anderson (©2024), Your Citizen's Dividend: How to double your wage, dramatically reduce financial stress and improve living standards for everyone, Property Sharemarket Economics, 16 pp. — used for all content above, page-cited (owner-supplied copy read in full 2026-07-06; quotes ≤50 words; the PDF itself is not committed to the repo). Free download
2. Karl Fitzgerald (2013), Total Resource Rents of Australia — used for the eBook's quoted resource-rents conclusion (advocacy, attributed; already on the registry via Geoism). PDF
3. E. Jane Costello, Scott N. Compton, Gordon Keeler & Adrian Angold (2003), "Relationships Between Poverty and Psychopathology: A Natural Experiment," JAMA 290(15): 2023–2029. DOI 10.1001/jama.290.15.2023 — used to identify the foundational Great Smoky Mountains / Eastern Band of Cherokee casino-dividend natural experiment behind the eBook's account.
4. Randall K. G. Akee, William E. Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold & E. Jane Costello (2010), "Parents' Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-experiment Using Transfer Payments from Casino Profits," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2(1): 86–115. DOI 10.1257/app.2.1.86. AEA — used for the income/child-outcomes quasi-experimental finding the eBook summarizes.