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>Is using the toilet a human right then, and if so, whose duty is it to volunteer to clean it up? It can be paid for with land value taxes: https://en.wikipedi
by crdoconnor 10y ago
>Is using the toilet a human right then, and if so, whose duty is it to volunteer to clean it up?
It can be paid for with land value taxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Indeed, it effectively used to be - they typically are and were paid for with property taxes, which is a proxy for LVT. The political decisions to decline property tax revenue is the reason why many closed.
Landlords' entitlement to an ever larger stream of rental income that includes the value of land which they had no hand in creating or making valuable is largely why state/city budgets are in such a mess, why the 1% steadily gets richer and why property values keep going up.