As you said, you not allowed to just sit on the land and not provide a good to the rest of the country (in one way or another). As much as I empathize with you

As you said, you not allowed to just sit on the land and not provide a good to the rest of the country (in one way or another). As much as I empathize with your reaction, it seems to me that the use it or lose it philosophy brought on by the property tax policy is actually an efficient way to allocate land in a country.