> Big fan of land value taxes. Pardon the negative knee-jerk reaction, but I have seen land value taxes used abusively and in the most coercive manner you can

> Big fan of land value taxes. Pardon the negative knee-jerk reaction, but I have seen land value taxes used abusively and in the most coercive manner you can imagine. It still makes my blood boil. Back when I lived in Minnesota, the metro area interests were rezoning farm land as residential, and then taxing it at residential property rates, even though it was still used for corn fields and pasture. This was utterly destroying family farms. Now before you accuse me of NIMBY-ism leading to housing shortages.... this was to create new ex-urban housing areas with 2.5 to 5 acre minimum lot laws. There was no shortage of places to build houses. Houses for sale sat on the market for months. This was driven by politicians and developers in cahoots to shove aside people that were in their way, and coerce them to disgorge their property and give up their lively-hood through unjustified perversion of the tax code. Using the tax code to rob people of their property rights is not the answer. If you want to live in a kleptocracy, there are several you can move to. Maybe you will be one of the lucky ones and the state won't rob you.