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That works fine (and by "fine" I mean it can be implemented, not that it will produce the desired result) if you're managing authoritarian society where everyon
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
That works fine (and by "fine" I mean it can be implemented, not that it will produce the desired result) if you're managing authoritarian society where everyone is under the government's thumb but anywhere with a shred of democracy will vote out politicians who violate their property rights like that.
- tome 5y agoI can understand how land value taxation could be interpreted as violating property rights but I can't see how the method I outlined for establishing property values is any greater a violation of property rights. In both cases if you keep your property if and only if you pay your land value tax! Of course, this method needs some work to be palatable, but that's negligible compare to making land value tax itself palatable.
- eutropia 5y agoSome people don’t view anyone as having a “right” to something they had no hand in creating. Earth existed, then humans existed: why does any one human have a claim to this finite resource of planetary surface area? LVT says no human has intrinsic ownership of land, that it is “held in common”, and so no one ought to be able to monopolize the gains of its unimproved benefit. Make as much money as you want by your productive use of the land, or pay the market value if you don’t: but don’t horde it to yourself without paying your share.