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I have a question. It seems very unlikely that Georgist policies will take hold in the US any time soon, at least not at the state or federal level. The questio
by gautamcgoel 5y ago
I have a question. It seems very unlikely that Georgist policies will take hold in the US any time soon, at least not at the state or federal level. The question then becomes: A) what "Georgist-lite" policies can we realistically hope to get enacted in the US, and B) is it feasible to start new countries built around Georgism? If so, where and how?
- kiba 5y agoIf there's something feasible for solving political problems, I would like to know as well.
- garmaine 5y ago> If so, where and how? Serious answer: Mars. The outer space treaty prevents terrestrial nations from claiming sovereignty over mars, so mars itself would be in a position to set and collect its own taxes in an entirely new regime. And unlike today’s service economies, nearly all of Martian GDP would be derived from land (in the georgist sense: natural resources).
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- SilasX 5y agoA) Counties typically already distinguish site value from improvement value but still tax both at the same rate. So a lite reform could be to lower the tax rate on improvements and raise it on site value.
- jareklupinski 5y agoMight be (hopefully) sooner; Biden is from a Georgist-like town: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden,_Delaware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden,_Delaware > founded in 1900 as a radical Georgist single-tax community by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect Will Price
- epistasis 5y agoThere are significant inroads that can be made, even in California's situation, with the extremely anti-Georgist Prop 13: http://cacommonground.org/pdf/2020-12_Transit_Value_Capture.pdf http://cacommonground.org/pdf/2020-12_Transit_Value_Capture....